Theories Of Crime And Deviance, Social Orderder Flashcards
What does Durkheim think about crime
Crime is necessary and normal for society
What does crime reinforce
Social norms
Give an example of challenging old laws to create social change
Rosa parks disobedience to help change racist laws
What change in society can crime lead to when people challenge outdated laws
Social change
Explain Merton’s strain theory
People struggle to achieve goals in society so they turn to crime
Define conformity
Accept the goals and work legally
Define Innovation
Use crime to achieve goals
Define Retreatism
Rejecting both goals and rules
Define rebellion
Making your own goals and rules
Explain cohens theory in status frustration
Working class boys experience failure in school leading leading to frustration and joining deviant subcultures for status
What do cloward and Ohlin say about subcultures
Different subcultures made depending on opportunities such as criminal subcultures, conflict subcultures
what do Marxists argue crime is a result of and what does it encourage
Capitalism encouraging greed and inequality
What crimes do the wealthy commit
Corporate crimes
In terms of crime, what is more likely to happen to the working class as a result of the upper classes crimes committed
To be arrested and blamed
What do neo Marxists (Hall) suggests the media creates
Moral panic
Give an example of moral panic in the uk
Black mugger
What is Beckers labelling theory about crime
Crime is socially made, it only exists when society labels an act as criminal
Explain how labelling can cause someone to commit crime
When someone is labelled as criminal they may live up to that label
What does lemert is primary deviance
Minor rule breaking with no label like a child stealing sweets
What is cicourels theory about the what police may do to working class and ethnic minorities
The police may use stereotypes to label working class and ethnic minorities as criminals
What does lemert say is secondary deviance
When a label is applied and the person commits more crime
What does heidonsoh
Women
