THEORIES OF CRIME - SUBCULTURAL

Question 1

subcultural theories accept…

Answer 1

view of the typical criminal

Question 2

subcultural theorists believe a lack of what leads to crime?

Answer 2

opportunity

Question 3

what 4 names must we remember for subcultural theories of crime?

Answer 3

Cloward and Ohlin
Miller
Albert Cohen
- P. Cohen

Question 4

what were Cloward and Ohlin inf by?

Answer 4

strain theory

Question 5

what 3 types of dev sc did Cloward and Ohlin find?

Answer 5

criminal - organised crime
conflict - territorial
retreatist - drop out and withdraw from society

Question 6

what are blocked opportunities found by Cloward and Ohlin?

Answer 6

people unable to achieved valued goals for example success and money

Question 7

what does Miller focus on?

Answer 7

focal concerns

Question 8

according to Miller, what do WC have?

Answer 8

different focal concerns than MC, so they don’t value academic success

Question 9

what focal concerns do WC have according to Miller?

Answer 9

aggressiveness, fighting and no focus on edu, streetwise, being tough

Question 10

what do Albert Cohen focus on?

Answer 10

status frustration

Question 11

Cohen believes that WC…

Answer 11

do want to achieve the MC value of academic success and feel inferior

Question 12

WC according to Cohen get?

Answer 12

frustrated with their low class position leading to criminal sc

Question 13

Cohen says that crime is what across ages?

Answer 13

not the same across all ages

Question 14

Cohen found that young deviants are uniquely…

Answer 14

non-utilitarian meaning crime not for profit and short-term hedonism for instant pleasure and pleasure seeking

Question 15

what is an alternative view to subcultural theories?

Answer 15

P.Cohen

Question 16

what does P.Cohen say?

Answer 16

traditional WC values are contradicted by consumer culture e.g. WC sc embrace (mods) or resist (skinheads) MC culture