Sociology Functionalism

Question 1

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P - Crime is Universal in all Society’s
E - Farell - “middle classes are more likely to admit to tax fraud”
E - Functionalist - Durkheim - Shared Values, organic analogy
Marxist - Althusser - Social Control working class
L - Functionalism offers a better explanation than Marxism

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P - Crime is caused by Anomie
E - national audit database - “tax avoidance costs £34 billion per year”
E - Functionalist - Durkheim - Anomie
Realist - Lea and Young - impact of crime
L - Functionalism offers a better explanation than Realism

Question 3

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P - disjunction in goals and means
E - Blomberg - “29% of new stories reinforced benefit fraud”
E - Funtionalist - Merton - Strain theory
Interactionist - Matza - Greed causes crime
L - Functionalism offers a better explanation than interactionsim

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P - People experiencing status frustration
E - MOJ 2017 - “74% of prosecutions were male, 20% were female”
E - Functionalist - Cohen - Subculture and Juvenile Crime
Feminist - Radford - Personal element to crime, doubly devient
L - Functionalism offers a better explanation than feminism

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P - Bonds of attachment to society
E - CSEW 2011 - “poorer households are more likely to be burgled”
E - Functionalist - Hirchi - links and Bonds to society
New Right - Murray - Underclass
L - Functionalism offers a better explanation than New Right