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Crime and Deviance Flashcards

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Describe Miller’s ideas about working class subcultures

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He believes that the lower class process their own cultures and values.

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What does Miller believe the focal concerns of working-class subcultures are?

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  1. Toughness
  2. Smartness
  3. Excitement
  4. Fate
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Describe Cloward and Ohlin’s theory about subcultures

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They focused on how people’s opportunity to be deviant are different, (based on where they live and the opportunity structure available). Not everyone has the same chances to be successful criminals.

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What is the criminal subculture?

According to Cloward and Ohlin

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Provides a learning environment for young criminals from criminal role models. They have access to an illegitimate opportunity structure.

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What is the conflict subculture?

According to Cloward + Ohlin

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These tend to commit violent crimes to release frustrations in areas that have little social unity or informal social control.

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What is the retreatist subculture?

According to Cloward + Ohlin

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Have failed to succeed in both the legitimate and illegitimate opportunity structures and therefore are double failures. Resort to drug use.

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Describe Matza’s Drift Theory

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Drift in and out of deviant subcultures, no strong commitment to our subcultures.
May turn to criminal behaviour to satisfy a behaviour at that time such as needing status or excitement but can easily return to normal society.

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What do realists say about crime?

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They view…

  • Crime as a real problem
  • Crime causes fear
  • Focus on the victims
  • Try to offer realistic solutions
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When did right realism emerge and who under?

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In the 1970s-80s when New Right Conservative governments came to power- Thatcher

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When did left realism emerge and who under?

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Emerged in the 1990s-2000s, in response to New Right/Conservative attitudes. Under Blair.

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What did right realism believe in?

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Emphasis on being tougher on the criminals than on the causes of the crime.

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What did left realism believe in?

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‘Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime’

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What did right realists believe the 3 causes of crime to be?

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  • Bio social
  • Inadequate socialisation and the under class
  • Rational choice
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What did left realists believe the 3 causes of crime to be?

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  • Marginalisation
  • Relative deprivation
  • Subcultures
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How do marxist views differ from realism?

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  • See criminals as the victim

- Rid capitalism, rid deviancy. Not a practical solution.

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How do functionalist views differ from realism?

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  • Offer no explanations of the causes of crime
  • Ignores widespread fear/victim of crime
  • No solutions to fix problems as it is healthy
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Describe Merton’s strain theory

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Crime and deviance were evidence of a strain between the socially accepted goals of society and the socially approved means of obtaining those desired goals. Not everyone has the same access to opportunities to achieve these goals.

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What are the 5 responses to the strain between goals and means according to Merton?

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  1. Conformity
  2. Innnovation
  3. Ritualism
  4. Retreatism
  5. Rebellion
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Define Rebellion

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Both socially sanctioned goals and means are rejected, and different ones are substituted. Political activist or religious fundamentalist who believes society no longer works and there needs to be radical change.

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Define retreatism

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The individual fails to achieve success and rejects both goals and means. The person drops out.

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Define ritualism

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A ritualist is someone who immerses themselves in the daily routine of their job but has lost sight of the goal of material success.

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Define conformity

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The individual continues to adhere to both goals and means despite the limited likelihood of success

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Define innovation

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The person accepts the goals of society but uses different ways to achieve them.

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Criticise Merton’s strain theory

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  • Stresses the existence of common goals but society has became fragmented.
  • Overestimates w/c crime and underestimates m/c
  • Fails to explain crimes that do not produce material reward
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What did Wolfgang’s study of 588 homocides in Philadelphia (1958) find about homocides?

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26% of homocides involved Victim Precipitation – the victim triggered the events leading to the homicide.

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Define secondary victimisation

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In addition to the impact of the crime itself, individuals may suffer further victimisation from the criminal justice system.

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Give an example of secondary victimisation

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A 2018 rape trial in Ireland, a 17 year old was raped by a 27 year old man and the lawyer said ‘you have to look at the way she was dressed. She was wearing a thong with a lace front.’

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What is the impact of crime on society?

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  • Fear of crime

- Secondary victimisation

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What does radical victimology believe about crime and victims?

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Structural Factors such as patriarchy and poverty, which place powerless groups such as women and the poor at greater risk of victimisation.
The State’s power to apply or deny the label of victim: Victim is a social construction in the same way that “Crime” and “Criminal”. Through the criminal justice system the state applies the label of victim to some but withholds it from others

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What does Christie (1986) believe about victimology?

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The concept of a “Victim” is a social construction. The stereotype of the “ideal victim” favoured by the media, public and criminal justice system is weak, innocent and blames individual – such as the elderly or a small child – who is the target of a strangers attack.

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What did Hans Von Hentig (1948) identify about victims?

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13 characteristics of victims. The implication being that the victim somehow invites victimisation by being the kind of person that they are.

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What does Reiner (2007) identify as the 3 main trends of media reportage of crime

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1) It accentuates the negative
2) It highlights victim culture: audiences are positioned to identify with the victims whose innocence and vulnerability is emphasised.
3) Law and order solutions (forceful solutions and tough punishments) are portrayed as the only way to tackle a frightening and out of control crime wave that requires an even greater emphasis on security.

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Describe Young’s idea of new inclusionism

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Reintegrate the excluded back into society.

Tackle inherited wealth, discrimination & end massive difference in wages.

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What do the 2013 statistics say about ethnicity and crime?

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Black people make up just 2.8% of the population, but 13% of the prison population.

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Explain Reiner’s idea of canteen culture (2000)

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Canteen culture amongst the police, including: suspicion, macho values and racism, which encourages racist stereotypes and a mistrust of those from non white backgrounds.

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What did Bowling and Philips (2000) find about identifying victims?

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White victims ‘over-identify’ blacks

Guessing the offender was black even when they haven’t seen their face

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What is risk of people from ethnic backgrounds being a victim of crime compared to white people?

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People from mixed ethnic backgrounds have a 36% risk of being a victim than whites with only a 24% risk.

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Garland identifies three types of displacement. What are they?

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Spatial, temporal, target, tactical

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Define spatial displacement

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moving elsewhere to commit the crime

40
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Define temporal displacement

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committing the crime at a different time

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Define target displacement

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choosing a different victim

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Define tactical displacement

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using a different method

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There are three types of crime preventions. What are they?

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situational, environmental and social crime prevention

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Target hardening methods are situational crime prevention. Describe target hardening

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Increase the effort and difficulty, increase the risk, reduce the rewards

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What’s an example of situational crime prevention?

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Felson, New York Bus Terminal
Poorly designed, opportunity for crime e.g the toilets were a setting for luggage theft, rough sleeping, drug dealing etc

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How did the New York Bus terminal design out crime?

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They reshaped the physical environment

47
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Describe Foucault’s idea of surveillance

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Disciplinary power through fear and uncertainty

We live in a ‘prison-like culture’ constantly monitored… or think we are

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Explain the POMO idea of liquid surveillance

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Postmodernists believe society is fluid and constantly changing.
Technology has allowed this to speed up.
We are watched constantly and monitored over 300 times a day!

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What are the four forms of punishment?

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Detterance, rehabilitation, incapication, retribution

50
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Define detterence

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Punishment stops future offending – ‘Made an example of’

51
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Define Rehabilitation

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Reform or change offenders

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Define Incapacitation

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Remove the offenders capacity to offend again.

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Define Retribution

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‘Pay back’ This DOES NOT aim to reduce future offences – it is simply there to PUNISH!

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Dalton (1964) argues that…

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hormonal and menstrual factors of women that can influence a minority to crime in certain circumstances

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Explain Smart and Carlen’s mad and bad theory

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Labelled as mad and bad when women commit crimes that go against their gender roles

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Why does Otto Pollack (1950) argue women have an advantage in the CJS

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Women are naturally deceptive because they are skilled in it

E.g hiding periods

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Explain Otto Pollack’s chivalry thesis

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Chivalry thesis suggests that officials in the CJS are predominately men and are more inclined to let women off, or to punish them less severely than men. Chivalry suggests men are socialised to be softer and protective towards females whilst being harder on men.

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Describe Heidensohn’s (1985) double deviant theory

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Women are treated badly when they deviate from norms and values associated with femininity
Seen as double deviants, breaking norms of society and gender norms

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How does sex role theory explain women committing less crime?

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Parsons, women learn from the expressive role therefore they are kind and caring <3

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Describe masculinity and the thrill of crime, Katz

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Men commit crime out of pleasure and excitement. Different crimes = different thrills
Shoplifting = sneaky thrill
Murder = righteous slaughter

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Explain messerschmidt’s idea of normative masculinity

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normative masculinity exists in society and is highly valued by men.
Normative masculinity is the socially approved idea of what a real man is.
Masculinity = difference from and desire for women.
Normative masculinity is not something that is normal but a state that males only achieve as an accomplishment

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Give examples of normative masculinity

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business man = control in workplace

less powerful man = turns to domestic violence

63
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What does winlow say about why men commit crimes

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Men commit crimes in order to achieve success and masculine status

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Describe the 2007 study of Sunderland bouncers

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Bouncers = attractive job to reassert masculinity, can engage in profitable criminals activities e.g drug dealing

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Explain Lombrosso and Ferrero’s theory

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Criminality is innate and very few are born female criminals.
Higher levels of testosterone in males accounts for gender differences

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Explain Heidensohn and Carlen’s theory of women as guardians of domestic morality

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Females have more to lose if they turn to crime. They are guardians of domestic morality and have to set a good example therefore they cannot take risks.

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