Sociology Subculturalism

Question 1

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P - Crime is caused by subcultures
E - national audit database - “tax avoidance costs £34 billion per year”
E - Functionalist - Cohen - Subculture and Juvenile Crime
Feminist - Radford - Personal element to crime, doubly deviant
L - Subculturealism offers better explanation than feminist

Question 2

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P - Crime is caused by capitalism
E - Blomberg - “29% news stories referenced benefit fraud”
E - Interactionist - Matza - Greed causes crime
New Right - Murray - Underclass
L - Subculturealism offers better explanation than new right

Question 3

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P - Crime is caused by underclass
E - CSEW 2011 - “ poorer households are more likely to be burgled”
E - New Right - Murray - Underclass
Feminist - Walklate - Rape Trails
L - Subculturealism offers better explanation than feminism

Question 4

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Answer 4

P - Crime is a rejection of norms and values
E - MOJ 2017 - “74% of prosecutions were male , 26% were female”
E - Marxist - Brake - rejection of capitalism
Functionalist - Durkheim - Shared Values, Organic Analogy
L - Subculturealism offers better explanation than Functionalism

Question 5

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Answer 5

P - crime is caused by a lack of oportunity
E - Farell - “middle classes are more likely to admit to tax fraud”
E - Functionalism - Cloward and Ohlin - Blocked opportunities
Interactionist - Goffman - labelling theory
L - Subculturealism offers better explanation than interactionist