CULTURAL CRIMINOLOGY

Question 1

Cultural Criminology

Answer 1

Brings a postmodern view to an understanding of delinquent subcultures, seeing them as an expression of identity, resistance and power struggle.

Question 2

Katz - sociological explanations.

Answer 2

Sociological explanations which focus on social characteristics alone fail to take into account ways in which people are drawn into crime.

Question 3

Lyng - ‘edgework’

Answer 3

This concept refers to exploring the edges that exist along cultural boundaries.

Question 4

Lyng - results of edgework

Answer 4

Intense emotions can occur, but by mastering these emotions the individual can feel a sense of control and accomplishment.

Question 5

Young - ‘bulimic society’

Answer 5

A culture in which citizens are encouraged to ‘worship success, money, wealth and status’.

Question 6

Young - anomie

Answer 6

Uses anomie to describe the contradictory feelings which today’s society brings, describing it as ‘the vertigo of late modernity’.

Question 7

Jackson-Jacobs - gangs

Answer 7

Gangs make local attachments glorious. Transforming the continuation of a childhood friendship into matters of pride.

Question 8

Nightingale - ‘paradox of inclusion’

Answer 8

Black youths who turned to deviance to achieve the goals of mainstream society.

Question 9

Criticism

Answer 9

• Links to labelling and doesn’t describe what happened in the first place.