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Flashcards by Shannon Vogel, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Shannon Vogel
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| Question | Answer |
| Durkheim | Crime is reaction to lack of value consensus. Impossible for everyone to have same norms and values, so crime is inevitable. |
| Big Brother Watch | Found there were over 100,000 cameras in school. School use CCTV more than other organisation. |
| Jamie Bulger | 2 year old that was murdered. Abducted, tortured by 2 ten year olds by Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. Both founded guilty. Released with new identities. Venables offended again. |
| Stanley Cohen | Mods and Rockers. Media exaggerated and created a moral panic. They were made into folk devils (demonised and labelled). Deviancy amplification is when media make moral panic worse. |
| Sarah Thornton | Youths enjoy moral panic as it makes them feel rebellious. |
| British youth | British youths are worse behaved in Europe. More likely to binge brink and take part in youth crime. 44% British teens had been involved in a fight. |
| Edwin Sutherland | Invented term white collar crime. Middle class commit most crime. Mainly corporate but they get away with it because status. |
| Frank Pearce | Marxist. Linked big business with organised crime. Corporate crime ignored by police. Fraud cost country £73 billion a year. |
| Herald of Free Enterprise | Case of corporate manslaughter. Jury said unlawful killing due to negligence. |
| Lombroso | Crime was nature. Can see criminal by features like big ears, jaws and dark skin. |
| Walter Miller | Make working class subcultures. Men want to be cool. This means a night out can result in crime. |
| Merton | People want the American dream. They cannot achieve it legitimately so turn to crime to achieve it. |
| Hebdige | Crime amongst the working class is a rebellion against capitalism. |
| Miliband | Judiciary are from same background as the ruling class. Likely to be kind to them in court. |
| Chambliss | Laws are made to protect property and the ruling class. |
| Becker | Labelling theory. Self fulfilling prophecy. |
| Albert Cohen | Status frustration. American value success. Don't feel successful. Make own criminal subculture with own norms and values to feel more successful. |
| Bourdieu | Working class less likely to go to university. Turn to crime instead. |
| Cloward and Ohlin | Criminal subculture - highly organised criminal gangs Conflict subculture- join different gangs to fight Retreatist subculture - drugs and alcohol |
| Jackson | Women acting more like men. Ladettes. |
| Stuart Hall | Marxist. Government create moral panic to justify harsh policing. |
| Paul Gilroy | Ethnic minorities over represented due to institutional racism. |
| Stephen Lawrence | Police criticised for how they felt with case. Macpherson report found institutionally racist. |
| Crime statistics | 41% drop in crime between 2002 and 2012 |
| Cicourel | Police prone to judge. Labels affect the statistics. |
| Charles Murray | Crime is a response to generosity of welfare state. |
| Lea and Young | Capitalism has helped change working class experience. True victim of working class crime is working class. |
| Smart | Feminist. Theories ignore women. Ignore the treatment of women in judiciary system. Ignore crime men commit against women. |
| Heidensohn | Women controlled as they enter adulthood. This means less likely to commit crime due to expectations at home. |
| Castles and Kosack | Capitalism causes racism. Ethnic minorities used to cheap labour and racism. |
| Victimisation | Poor are more likely to be victim of violent crime and burglary. |
| Chivalry factor | Women treated more gently than men in the police system. |
| Demonisation of women | Women are treated harsher as they go against there normal caring nature. |
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