Class, locality and age

Question 1

Who came up with the zones of transition theory

Answer 1

Mckay and Shaw

Question 2

What theories talk about class (other topics)

Answer 2

Cicourel - negotiations of justice and typical delinquents
Becker - labelling
Miller - lower class youngsters reject the mainstream values and create their own subcultures
Lemert - primary and secondary deviance is often attack on wc cultures
Right realism - murray and wilson
Left realism Lea and young - marginilisation, subcultures and relative deprivation

Question 3

Newburn - class

Answer 3

Socioligists tend to focus on crimes of the working class

Question 4

Different wc subcultures

Answer 4

Retreatist, conformists, rejectionists

Question 5

What are feature sof the zone of transition

Answer 5

Run down, poor, low social stability, often immigrants who just moved to the country

Question 6

How do those in the zones of transmission react

Answer 6

Form subcultures through cultural transmission

Question 7

Felson and clarke - locality

Answer 7

Alloes for more oppurtunities to commit crimes
Also big cities so crime is easier as people are more unrecognizable

Question 8

Pearson age and crime

Answer 8

Young people have always formed the largest groups of criminals, eg : MODS AND ROCKERS
200S mostly young people blamed for drug-yse and knife crime

Question 9

Cooper ad roe - age

Answer 9

2012 - 10-17 year olds accounted for 1/4 of all crime committed

Question 10

Matza age

Answer 10

Young people feel status fustration - lost in life weakening their bonds of attachment

Question 11

Post modernist - Katz

Answer 11

Young people experience a thrill in committing crimes

Question 12

Crimogenic capitalism

Answer 12

Marxists believe that capitalism is criminogenic - by its very nature, it causes crime. Poverty (caused be capitalism) may mean that crime is the only way the working class can survive. Crime also may be the only way the working class can obtain consumer goods encouraged by capitalist advertising, resulting in utilitarian crimes such as theft. Alienation and lack of control may lead to frustration and aggression, resulting in non-utilitarian crimes such as violence and vandalism.

Question 13

Chambliss class marxist

Answer 13

Chambliss state that laws to protect private property are a cornerstone of the capitalist economy.
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Snider argues that capitalist state is reluctant to pass laws that regulate the activities of businesses or threaten their profitability.