Starley Cross Community Safety Project
Within a poor community, families can be deprived in a number of ways, these include; relative deprivation and social deprivation.
Social Deprivation collaborates with marginalisation and social exclusion of certain people within society. These tend to come from poor or unemployed families, from a dysfunctional family or from BME groups (Hirschi, 1969).
Relative deprivation claims that if a person starts to believe that any kind of resources have been distributed unfairly or that they have been treated unjustly in accordance to others, then they are more likely to take assertive (possibly criminal) action (Webber, 2007).
Some of the families in Starley Cross are large-sized, with single parents. Within these families we often have a lack of a male role model. Therefore many young people in Starley Cross grow up in an environment of negative role models and lack of stable parental relationships and they have experienced deprivation at all stages including; educational and material. Unemployed families cannot provide the same life for their children as employed people.
Moreover, an overall decline in the industrial estate and manufacturing production has been observed in Starley Cross, which led to less employment opportunities, affecting particularly the older youths, and higher number of incidents of social deprivation and poverty, especially on the Manor Estate.
(Domokos 2013).
DEPRIVATION
