Theories of Crime/Deviance

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Theories of Crime/Deviance
  1. Functionalism
    1. DURKHEIM
      1. Inevitable, Universal, Relative, Functional (reinforces boundaries preventing anomie.
        1. - Doesn't explain causes.
        2. MERTON
          1. Crime exists because society shares American Dream.
            1. Not everyone can achieve lawfully.
              1. STRAIN between ambitions and ability.
              2. Responses: Conformity, Innovation, Ritualism, Retreatism, Rebellion
              3. + Messner & Rosenheld: explains why Japan low crime US high.
                1. +Nightingale; found Philidelphia gangs wanted latest goods, did this illegally.
                2. - Doesn't explain crimes without £$ gain.
                  1. - Determinist
                    1. - Official Statistics, interpretivists don't like
                      1. - Accepts official stat w-c=criminal, what about corporate? MARXISTS
                    2. Subcultural Theorists
                      1. COHEN
                        1. w-c delinquent due to status frustration
                          1. Can't gain status via academic success so through delinquency.
                        2. CLOWARD & OHLIN
                          1. w-c boys join gangs - status through promotion = commit crimes to get promoted.
                          2. MILLER
                            1. w-c 'focal concerns' differ from consensus values
                              1. Focal concerns mean more likely to get in trouble e.g. 'laugh' 'toughness'
                            2. DOWNES found no evidence of; focal c's or status frustration in UK
                              1. MATZA, determinist, people actually 'float' in/out of gangs not STUCK.
                              2. Marxist Subcultural Theory
                                1. w-c boys disadvantaged under cap. = gangs and crime as form of 'resistance' against cap.
                                  1. + 'Skinheads' 60s, w-c 'uniform' bc loosing their culture
                                    1. - suggesting crime is 'god'?
                                      1. Marxism
                                        1. Capitalism is a crime as it is based on exploitation.
                                          1. And it causes crime because of it's values e.g. 'competition'.
                                            1. SUPPORTING MERTON?
                                          2. The real criminals are those - corporate crime/white-collar (SLAPPER&TOMBS)
                                            1. We are manipulated into thinking these crimes aren't really that major - so won't challenge cap. and rebel.
                                              1. Not really punished 'fines'
                                            2. - Why do communist countries have crime then?
                                          3. Environmental Theory
                                            1. SHAW&McKAY
                                              1. Chicago, 'concentric zones'.
                                                1. Zone nearest city = crime bc 'zone of transition' - low sense of 'community due to high population turnover.
                                                2. Cultural Transmission - poorest parts of city crime = 'norm' passed through genertaions.
                                                  1. 'Problem Families' TIPPING - BALDWIN&BOTTOMS
                                                    1. Broken Windows Theory
                                                      1. GILL - LUKE STREET
                                                    2. SUTHERLAND&CRESSEY 'differential association'
                                                      1. Determinist? not so easily influenced?
                                                      2. Privatisation public space, Nocturnal economy
                                                      3. Social Action theory
                                                        1. Labelling
                                                          1. BECKER - 'self-fulfilling prop', 'master label' 'deviant career'.
                                                            1. M-C use 'cultural capital' t talk way out of crimes, why w-c seem more crim. - official stats = constructs
                                                            2. JOCK YOUNG 'hippies' - 'deviancy amplification'
                                                              1. CHAMBLISS 'Saints & Roughnecks' & RDU
                                                              2. BRAITHWITE - 'shaming' - 'disintegrative'=reoffending marginalised.
                                                                1. + countries with 'integrative' lower reoffending rates.
                                                              3. Postmodernists
                                                                1. Identity choice.
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