Subcultural Theories Of Crime

Question 1

What is the key idea to subcultural theories of crime?

Answer 1

Subcultures enable their members to gain status via illegitimate means

Question 2

What does Albert Cohen state subcultural deviance to be?

Answer 2

A group response to to failure

Question 3

What is status frustration?

Answer 3

The feeling of worthlessness one has when they are at the bottom of a status hierarchy

Question 4

What’s a common example of status frustration?

Answer 4

Working-class school boys typically end up at the bottom of their school’s official status hierarchy and will be regarded as ‘thick’ by their superiors who will put them in lower level classes

Question 5

How do subcultures offer a release to status frustration?

Answer 5

Subcultures invert society’s values which resultingly inverts what actions bring status within a societal hierarchy

Question 6

How do criminal subcultures come about?

Answer 6

They will arise in areas with a longstanding professional criminal network that selects suitable youths to participate in crime

Question 7

How do conflict subcultures come about?

Answer 7

They will arise in areas where the only criminal opportunities are within street gangs

Question 8

What types of people are apart of retreatist subcultures?

Answer 8

Dropouts who failed in both the legitimate and illegitimate ways to achieve societal goals