social class and crime

Question 1

strain theory

Answer 1

deprived communities have fwere opportunities to achueve goals they aspire to, push people to innovate, find alternative means to reach goals such as crime

Question 2

labelling

Answer 2

criminal and attract more police, greater police presence in w/c communities than m/c, offenders now more likely to be stopped/searched, regarded as acting suspicious,being arrested, higher in w/c areas due to more police

Question 3

parent types

Answer 3

m/c parents are able to negotiate cjs better than w/c parents, lower criminality levels in m/c

Question 4

marx theory

Answer 4

focus on w/c crime rather than m/c, laws created enforce and punish w/c, as theyre the most deprived due to capitalism

Question 5

rational choice

Answer 5

potential offenders from pooroer areas decide that the benefit of crime ( access to money, consumer goods) outweigh the costs and risks of being caught

Question 6

globalisation

Answer 6

outsourcing of trad manual labour jobs has created high levels of unemployment and a crisis of masculinity, crime is now a viable career option and source of status, that was once given through manual labour