topic 14 - age and crime

Question 1

Katz and Lyng

Answer 1

deviant subcultures formed for PLEASURE OF TRANSGRESSION
other theorists over-emphasise rationality behind deviance

1. SEXUAL METAPHOR
   when committing deviance: pulses race, excitement, rush of adrenaline like sexual experience
   quote from a teen thief: “was almost orgasmic”
   deviance can be likened to a sexual experience
2. RELIGIOUS METAPHOR
   deviance is driven by desire to create symbolic meaning/ruin something sacred e.g. shitting in a school, keeping useless items from victims of bullying
3. LUDIC METAPHOR
   deviance is like a game ⚽️
   e.g. gang members try to gain strategic advantage like it’s a sport/game

Lyng: edgework

Question 2

Miller

Answer 2

working class boys attracted to criminal subcultural deviance as they are socialised into norms and values called FOCAL CONCERNS

FATEST
Fate
Autonomy
Trouble
Excitement
Smartness
Toughness

Question 3

Matza

Answer 3

Young males more likely to experience drift
DRIFT THEORY: juveniles sense obligation to law and mostly follow, yet when strained they drift to crime

Techniques of neutralisation to justify criminality:
Denial of responsibility
Denial of injury
Denial of victims
Appeal to higher loyalties
Condemnation of condemners

Question 4

A. Cohen

Answer 4

😖🐓
working class boys: can’t fulfil middle class values (espec in school 🏫)
—> STATUS FRUSTRATION

so, INVERTED MIDDLE CLASS VALUES!: formed delinquent, counter-school subculture. 💪

Question 5

Hall

Answer 5

Hippy culture
Rejected mainstream capitalism.
Values of love, peace, anti-war, protect environment. ❤️🕊🌍
Long hair, peace and flower symbols, hallucinatory drugs. formed in REBELLION
🍃🌾🌺