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Crime and Deviance: Functionalist, Strain and subcultural theories Flashcards

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Value consensus

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Common set of beliefs in society

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Culture

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Customs/ideas of particular groups

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Socialisation

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Socialising into norms

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Social control

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Control behaviour through rewards/sanctions

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Why is crime found in all societies?

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Inequal socialisation and diversity of lifestyle, subcultures

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Why are modern societies experiencing crime?

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Anomie - Lack in social standards, rules losing influence, wider division of labour

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Two positive crime functions

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Boundary maintenance, Adaptation and change

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Define Boundary maintenance

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Crime produces reactions, social solidarity through stigmatising criminals

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Define Adaptation and change

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Deviance from new ideas that challenge laws, stopping these halts society

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Davis Prostitution function

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Prostitution releases male frustration without harming family

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Polsky Pornography function

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Pornography channels away from Adultery that harms family

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A.K. Cohen Institution function

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Shows when institutions are underperforming i.e Truancy

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Erikson police sustaining and teenage oats function

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Police sustain crime rather than getting rid, ‘sowing their wild oats’ to cope with adolescence

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Why is Functionalism useful for Crime and Deviance?

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Deviance is integral and has hidden functions

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3 criticisms of Functionalism (Amount, micro-approach and Isolation)

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Durkheim provides no amount of how much crime is needed
Ignores the micro-approach of individuals
May cause isolation i.e. Women being attacked

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How do people engage in deviance?

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Unable to achieve socially approved legitimate goals

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Structural factors

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Societies unequal opportunity structure

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Cultural factors

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Emphasis on success and weaker emphasis on legitimate means

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What two factors cause strain for individuals according to Merton?

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The goals a culture needs to succeed
What the structure allows legitimately

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How do Americans pursue goals?

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Legitimate means: self-discipline etc.

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What factors prevent pursuing goals?

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Poverty, discrimination and schooling

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Strain to anomie

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Lack of money success = frustration = illegitimate success

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Why is there pressure to deviate in America?

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Emphasis to win the game rather than playing by rules

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Conformity

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Accepting approved goals legitimately, MC

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Innovation

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Accept money success illegitimately, Lower-MC

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Ritualism

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Giving up but following rules for own sake

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Retreatism

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Rejection goals and legitimacy i.e. Psychotics

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Rebellion

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Rejecting goals, replacing with revolutionary change i.e. Hippies and Radicalism

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Two crime patterns Merton defines

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American crime is utilitarian property based
Lower class crime is higher due to illegitimate means

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5 criticisms of Merton (Over-representing, Ruling class, Money consensus, Utilitarian, Groups)

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Over-represents WC crime
Ignores ruling class creating laws that forces deviance
Assumes everyone shares money consensus
Focuses on only utilitarian crimes
Ignores group deliquency

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Subculture

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Cultural group with specific values

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What do subcultures offer to members?

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Alt opportunity structure to those denied legitimate success

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How are subcultures functional to members?

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A solution to societies problems

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Cohen: WC crime phenomenon

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Results from inability to achieve mainstream success legitimately

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Cohens criticisms of Merton

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Ignores deviance by groups
Focuses on utilitarian crime only

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Why do WC boys experience anomie?

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Middle class school, suffer cultural deprivation which leads to frustration and rejection MC values

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Values of subcultures and comparison to societies values

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Hostile and contempt, inverted to societies values

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How does subculture offer alternative status hierarchies?

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Creation of own illegitimate opportunity which they can gain status through

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Criticism of Cohen (Initial ideas)

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Assumes all WC boys share initial ideas with MC boys
Not all see themselves as failures.

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Criminal subcultures

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‘Apprentice’ in a crime career, forms in crime subcultures were youths learn from adult crime hierarchy

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Conflict subcultures

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High population turnover leads to social disorganisation and prevents crime networks. Illegitimate gangs using violence to release tension created

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Retreatist subcultures

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Double failures fail illegitimately and legitimately turn to illegal drug use to retreat from the system

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Cultural transmission theory

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Criminal tradition is transmitted gen to gen

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Differential association theory

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Deviance is behaviour learned through social interaction

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Social disorganisation theory

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Product of social disorganisation, population turnover and migration leads to instability and disruption. They fail to control people

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Evaluation of Cloward and Ohlin (Wealthy, power, drug trade mixture, reactive, independent, behaviour in subcultures)

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They ignore crimes by the wealthy

They ignore power structures created by law enforcers

Drug trade is a mix of disorganised crime and conflict in which subcultures cannot mix

Assumes everyone has the mainstream goal

Independent subculture -
Does not value success and doesnt view themselves as failures

Delinquents drift in/out of subcultures and are not strong committed.

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What 3 goals may young people pursue?

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Popularity
Autonomy
Treated like adults or real men

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Why may middle class youths be delinquent?

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Fail to achieve popularity, autonomy or adult respect

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Messner and Rosenfelds anomie theory (Winner takes it all, economic goals value, free-market capitalism and welfare spend)

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The winner takes it all mindset exerts pressure to be criminal by encouraging an anomic cultural environment in which people are encouraged ‘anything goes.’

Economic goals are valued the most and impacts institutions such as schools

Free-market capitalism and lack of welfare spend means crime will always exist in places such as the USA.

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Downes and Hansen evidence towards Messner and Rosenfeld about welfare spend?

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Societies that have more welfare spend have less imprisonment

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Savelsburg: Rise in crime during post-communist society

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Capitalist goals of having money success in 1990’s replaced communist values

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