Crime and Deviance

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The same act can be seen as deviant or non-deviant depending on the situation. --> societal deviance, situational deviance

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Criminals are genetically different

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Hormonal and chemical imbalances make people more likely to be criminal. chemical imbalances affect men more than women

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Deprivation of maternal love --> more likely to develop personality trait which leads them to committing crime

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People who commit crime have inherited psychological characteristics which predispose them to crime

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Crime plays a useful role in maintaining social order as long as it does not reach harmful levels. crime is inevitable and a normal aspect of social life --> all social change begins with some form of deviance

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Functionalism presents an oversocialised view of the individual

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Crime and Deviance can act as a safety valve where tension can be released without threatening social stability e.g. prostiution

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Crime acts a warning device --> signals that there is a defect in society + changes need to be made. WC boys suffered from a lack of opportunities to succeed in maintstream society (cultural deprivation). status frustration. tension released by joining/creating groups with alternative values for achieving status

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Lower class subculture encourages law breaking behavior. values passed from generation to generation encourage WC men to break the law. Delinquents are conforming to the focal concerns of their future

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STRAIN THEORY --> Conformists, Ritualists, Retreatists, Innovators, Rebels

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legitimate and illegitimate opportunity structure

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Developed Merton's strain theory. youths become disaffected --> capitalism promotes acquisition success which they can't attain. status frustration --> reject mainstream MC values --> create a new set of their own goals (invert the values of mainstream society). attach value to deviant acts . create their own illegitimate opportunity structure

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Criticized Cohen --> his theories only account for a minority of delinquent behaviour. delinquents may not originally accept society's goals. delinquents are angry at those who look down on them e.g. MC boys and teachers. lower WC boys do not necessarily share MC values to begin with

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Criticized Cohen--> his theory explains the role of deprivation in lower WC boys but not delinquency itself. Cultural deprivation is passed from one generation to the next but sub cultural activity is not

Crime and Deviance

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The same act can be seen as deviant or non-deviant depending on the situation. --> societal deviance, situational deviance

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Criminals are genetically different

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Hormonal and chemical imbalances make people more likely to be criminal. chemical imbalances affect men more than women

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Deprivation of maternal love --> more likely to develop personality trait which leads them to committing crime

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People who commit crime have inherited psychological characteristics which predispose them to crime

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Crime plays a useful role in maintaining social order as long as it does not reach harmful levels. crime is inevitable and a normal aspect of social life --> all social change begins with some form of deviance

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Functionalism presents an oversocialised view of the individual

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Crime and Deviance can act as a safety valve where tension can be released without threatening social stability e.g. prostiution

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Lower class subculture encourages law breaking behavior. values passed from generation to generation encourage WC men to break the law. Delinquents are conforming to the focal concerns of their future

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STRAIN THEORY --> Conformists, Ritualists, Retreatists, Innovators, Rebels

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legitimate and illegitimate opportunity structure

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Criticized Cohen --> his theories only account for a minority of delinquent behaviour. delinquents may not originally accept society's goals. delinquents are angry at those who look down on them e.g. MC boys and teachers. lower WC boys do not necessarily share MC values to begin with

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Criticized Cohen--> his theory explains the role of deprivation in lower WC boys but not delinquency itself. Cultural deprivation is passed from one generation to the next but sub cultural activity is not

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