“A human condition characterised by sustained or chronic deprivation of the resources, capabilities, choices, security and power necessary for the enjoyment of an adequate standard of living and other civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights” (U.N. 2001)

A social condition regarded by a considerable number of individuals as undesirable, and hence those persons believe something ‘ought to be done’ about the situation.

This represents a shift from the more static “poverty”, conceived as a lack of mainly financial resources, to a more dynamic concept emphasizing societal relations and participation.

Historically, this correlates with levels of family wealth and income.

Social problems provoke public THIS: a significant number of people OR a small number of significant people can bring about change.

Many developed States have impoverished groups, of these peoples, within their jurisdictions.

Social problems are defined largely in terms of these things for an individuals or groups.

The state's lending institution to persons wanting to start micro businesses.

The most important factor rendering one unlikely to experience job difficulties whatever their age, wealth/income and social class (Pantin, 1996).

Social Exclusion is both a structural and THIS process.

He considered poverty a major unfreedom and defined it as “the deprivation of basic capacities, rather than merely as low income>"

Sociologists usually understand this as the probability that individuals or groups can implement their desires even though they maybe resisted.

Exclusion draws attention to the mechanisms connects the economic aspects with social and political structures as well as the processes leading to this.

Programme where it was reported that incest was a continuous problem in about 5-10% of the student intake.

This type of exclusion is strongly identified with long-term unemployment.

Reflects some standard below which it is believed, basic needs cannot be met.

The first of our theories to use for social problem analysis

Religious movement that rose to prominence in the 1960s by demanding the rights of African-Jamaicans.

Caribbean country with the highest youth unemployment rate for 2015.

This theory seems to take all the burden of responsibility for what sometimes are violent, dangerous and bizarre actions from those committing them and to place it, instead, on the group or society that has come to regard those behaviours as violent, dangerous and bizarre in the first place.

The two categories under which the causes of poverty can be judged.

The neologism for a social class formed by people who are existing without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare.

This excludes residents from getting work, credit and even a prompt police response to reports of crime.

The rise in the number of youth not in employment, education or training, has led to widespread concerns about the impact on social cohesion and fears of this.

The idea that past unemployment trends are likely, for various reasons, to cause future never-ending cycles of unemployment.