Theorists Flashcards
who are the 4 theorists?
- frederic thrasher
- stanley cohen
- taunenbaum
- albert cohen
what did thrasher do?
father of gang thoery
what did stanley cohen do?
theory of moral panic
what did taunenbaum do?
dramatization of evil,
albert cohen
subcultural theory
father of gang theory (thrasher)
he talked about conflict and cohesion being intergang warfare - between the different gangs when you ward with one another thats where you got your cohesion from
what is the theory of moral panic
a feeling of fear spread among many people that some evil threatens the well-being of society
what is the theory of dramatisation of evil? (taunenbaum)
expanded thrashers theory of conflict and cohesion and said it was war with society, if we make this dramatisation of evil that we heard about before we crack down on these groups hard rather than firm then they would harden and create their own value system, build their own culture
what is albert cohens subcultural theory?
crime is a consequence of the union of young people into so-called subcultures in which deviant values and moral concepts dominate