A Clockwork Orange and the Society of Choice.

In A Clockwork Orange the stability of the state trumps the individual's happiness.
Crisis of cultural capital. Alex has an ambitious sense of cultural capital. This is expressed through consumption, particularly the consumption of music. .
The downfall of Alex arguably begins when Dim criticise Alex's consumption of Beethoven.
Whenever the gang of droogs attack Alex orchestrates the violence as art.
Alex uses art to kill the cat lady, and then kills part of himself by denying that art, and the world of high culture.
From a sociological standpoint young people present themselves in opposition to the norm. As youth couldn't change society, they have always tried to change things symbolically.
However there are arguments against. Some claim that young people given too much prominence in social change; that they merely reproduce orthodoxy.
In 2002 Boudrillard states "what if TV represented nothing more than itself in its message? "It's funny how the colours of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen."
We are arguably implicit in the society depicted in A Clockwork Orange.

From Droogs to Dogs - Gang Warfare

The absence of academic research leads to a distorted media dominated view of gangs.
Youth gangs are the latest 'folk devil.'
This is significant if policy makers in government use media sources as a base of action.
There are problematic connotations, including young people in inner cities, males, ethnic minorities etc, and demonization of areas such as Moss Side.
The government's response to gangs has always been to suppress gang culture, rather than to address the underlying problems.
In 2009 Chris Grayling said that Manchester has the same level of gang culture as the U.S, despite no empirical evidence of this.
After the riots in 2011, the government declared a 'war on gang culture,' and a US export on gang culture was flown over, as the perception was that gangs were heavily involved. However, in Manchester 187 people were arrested, and 5 were known as gang members. (2.6 percent)
In schools in areas reputed to be associated with gangs, students and teachers reported no gang problems. Instead, there were more pressing issues such as domestic violence and child exploitation.