Deviance can have positive benefits.

Durkheim argues deviance is not critical to society.

Crime is normal.

Structural Functionalism

Crime allows change to shape the form of society.

Blocked Opportunity Structure

What are two important elements of social and cultural structures?

Anomie

What are three culture axioms?

What are the types of individual adaptation?

Conformity

Innovation

Ritualism

Retreatism

Rebellion

Differential Association

Criminal behavior is learned.

Criminal behavior is not learned in interaction with other persons in a process of communication.

The principal part of the learning of criminal behavior occurs within intimate personal groups.

What does learning include when criminal behavior is learned?

The specific direction of motives and drives is learned from _____.

How does a person becomes delinquent?

Does differential associations vary?

Criminal behavior can be learned through the process of imitation.

Control theory

What are the elements of the bond?

Attachment

Commitment

Involvement

Belief

Feminist Theory

Girls and delinquency

Constructionist Perspective

Advantages of studying social problems

What theories emerged the constructionist approach?