Illegitimate opportunity structure

Question 1

Cloward and Ohin

1960

Answer 1

Argued Merton failed to see the illegitimate opportunity structure where people can make their way up the ladder.
Argue some people see an illegal carrer as their goal.

Question 2

Hobbs (1989)

Agrees with C+O

Answer 2

Interveiwed sucsesful criminals who made a profession out of it.
showing that it is possible to have a carrer in crime.

Question 3

Three types of IOS

Answer 3

Criminal
Conflict gang
Retreatest

Question 4

Criminal

Type of IOS

Answer 4

A criminal subculture where young people work up the ranks in the gang,

Top Boy

Question 5

Conflict Gang

Type of IOS

Answer 5

Postcode Wars, no carrer opportunities avaliabe to them so they turn to conflict to get over it.

Question 6

Retreatest

Type of IOS

Answer 6

When an individual cannot fit in with the other types they revert to drugs and alcohol to escape from

Question 7

Evaluation

Answer 7

Difficult too see everyone fits into one of these catagories
No talk of female deliquency