media x Crime

Question 1

lemert

Answer 1

• interactionist
• primary deviance (act of crime/deviance is not witnessed by anyone else)
• secondary deviance (act is witnessed and individual is labelled + sfp occurs) e.g. Amy Winehouse

Question 2

criminogenic - Gordan

Answer 2

• marxists gordon argued capitalism is criminogenic
  (by its very nature it causes crime + deviance)
  e.g. poverty leads to w/c committing petty theft to gain basic necessities
• m/c committing corporate + white collar crimes for their own personal gain e.g. rise up in status + gain profits
  contemporary example: London riots

Question 3

Cohen - status frustration - group crime

subcultural theories

Answer 3

• w/c boys experience anomie @ skl - inability to achieve leaves them at bottom of status hierarchy = status frustration
• resolve this frustration by rejecting m/c values + joining subcultures = alt status

ev: ignores labelling, gender blind - only focus on boys, doesn’t explain why only some w/c boys join + doesn’t explain deviance from boys who succeed legitimately

Question 4

Cloward x Ohlin - opportunity structures