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Popular culture in the 1960s did more harm than good

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Popular culture in the 1960s did more harm than good Use the sources and your own knowledge to explain whether you agree with this view Popular culture in the 1960s did more harm than good because there were more crimes being committed especially for organised (gang) crime and London's 'crime rate' increased by 124% and in 1964 indictable crime figures reached 1 million for the first time, this shows that something went wrong in the 60s and I believe that it was the pop culture that caused this with music like the Beatles, Janis Joplin, Rolling Stones and jimmy Hendrix that influenced drug use and therefore people committing crimes to pay for the drugs that they'd heard from the Beatles and Janis Joplin, who didn't sing about drugs but she was well known for taking drugs. That was a bad influence in itself. Crime rates may have increased heavily because the police...

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