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1
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Durkheim

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Crime can be functional or dysfunctional

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Merton

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Strain theory

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AK Cohen

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Status frustration

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Cloward and Ohlin

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Illegitimate opportunity structures

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Chambliss

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1975

Laws protecting private property are the cornerstone of capitalism

Ruling class dominate law-making systems

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Snider

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1993

Capitalist state won’t pass laws regulating business

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7
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New Criminology

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Taylor et al

1973

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8
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Crime is a rational response to capitalism

Selective law enforcement sweeps over MC offences

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Gordon

1976

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9
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Labelling deviance amplifies it

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Becker

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10
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Unlabelled primary deviance has few consequences

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Lemert

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Agents of social control produce delinquents through two stages involving subjective and biased judgement

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Cicourel

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12
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Greater investment into particular areas where crime is high is needed

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Jones

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13
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Media creates a moral panic about delinquency

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S Cohen

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14
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Disintegrative and reintegrative shaming

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Braithwaite

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15
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The welfare system allows the underclass to continue rejecting norms and values

Criminal activity should be more expensive

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Murray

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16
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Routine activity: motivated offender, suitable target, lack of capable guardian

17
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Broken window theory

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Wilson and Kelling

18
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Crime is a rational choice - gains outweigh chance of getting caught

19
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Some groups (e.g. black youth) offend more because of systematic inequality

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Lea and Young

20
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Police system is flawed

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Kinsey, Lea and Young

21
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Edgework (the thrill of crime)

22
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Different crimes are under/over-policed

Crime is rooted in social inequality

23
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High rates of robbery by black people -> more racial profiling -> SFP ->

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Bowling and Phillips

2002

24
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Myth of black criminality

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Gilroy

1982

25
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Crime statistics do not reflect reality

26
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Men’s duty of protection towards women stops them from arresting or prosecuting them

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Pollack

1950

27
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Criminal sociology is ‘malestream’

Women are socialised away from crime

28
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Female offenders reject ‘gender deal’ - being outside of social control = more likely to offend

29
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Sutherland

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1939

Differential association theory

Criminal behaviour is learned from family/friends/associates

30
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Foucault

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1970s

Criminal and sexual deviance & perception of madness have changed through time

Women wearing trousers was deviant 100 years ago

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