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| Actions which deviate from the norms and values of society. |
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| A form of deviance that breaks the law. |
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- Too much or too little crime is bad.
- Crime is necessary.
- Reinforces Boundaries, shared norms and social order
- Promotes Social Solidarity.
- Allows change to happen.
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- "Prostitution is functional to society."
- Provides sexual satisfaction without threatening the family.
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- How much crime is healthy?
- Why does crime exist in the first place?
- What about the victim?
- Increase of fear - loss of social solidarity.
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- 1930's - Studied the American Dream.
- Anyone can make it to the top = pressure for W.C
- Find other ways of getting money - Crime!
- Conformists, Ritualists, Retreatists, Innovators, and Rebels.
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| Criticisms of Merton's Strain Theory |
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- Too deterministic - not all working class deviate.
- Uses Official Statistics - Working class look bad.
- Not everyone wants the American Dream
- Focuses on monetary crime (Cohen) ignores vandalism ect.
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- Criticises Merton.
- Working class boys are faced with anomie in middle class schools
- Status Frustration = reject middle class values, create own deviant subculture, and turn society upside down.
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| How the human body works like society. |
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| People on the outskirts of society, e.g drug addicts, the underclass. |
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| Definitions and meanings constructed in the course of social interaction. |
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| Deviance differs in different cultures. |
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- Argue with Merton - there is lack of opportunities for w/c boys.
- Depends on social environment.
- Criminal Subcultures, Retreatist Subcultures, Conflict Subcultures.
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| Criticisms of Cloward and Ohlin |
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- Ignore crimes of wealthy
- Deterministic
- Too specific - some subcultures overlap
- Not everyone has the same mainstream goal.
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| Matza - Delinquence and Drift |
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- 2 Values - Conventional And Subterranean.
- Neutralisation -
- Denial of responsibility, Denial of the victim, Denial of injury, Condemnation of condemers, Appeal to higher loyalties.
- Drift - not adult nor child, drift in and out of subterranean values due to lack of control of life.
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