Functionalist explanations of crime
- Created by: emmakate
- Created on: 12-01-14 19:24
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- Crime + Deviance: Functionalist
- Hirschi
- Why don't people commit crime?
- Social bonds
- -Attachment
- Commitment
- -Involvement
- Belief
- Social bonds
- Why don't people commit crime?
- Durkheim
- Anomie
- Social change
- Collective conscience is weakened
- People look after own selfish needs
- Crime rates rocket
- People look after own selfish needs
- Collective conscience is weakened
- Social change
- Positive fuctions of crime:
- Crime is inevitable and necessary
- Perfect balance of crime will keep society healthy
- Re-affirming the boundaires
- Changing values
- Social cohesion
- Safety value
- Employment
- Perfect balance of crime will keep society healthy
- Crime is inevitable and necessary
- Anomie
- Merton
- Strain theory
- goals and means of society
- lower down had restricted goals
- GOALS= MONEY AND MATERIAL WEALTH
- MEANS= HARD WORK AND EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS
- Conformity
- Innovation
- Ritualism
- Retreatism
- Rebellion
- Retreatism
- Ritualism
- Innovation
- goals and means of society
- Strain theory
- Hirschi
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