Sub-cultural theories of crime and deviance
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- Created on: 09-10-15 12:43
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- Sub-cultural theories of crime and deviance
- Merton's strain theory
- legitimate and illegitimate means
- american dream - money success
- anomie (pressure) to succeed but no help
- deviant adaptions to strain
- conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism and rebellion
- legitimate and illegitimate means
- Cohen's status frustration theory
- status hierarchy
- cultural deprivation
- join or form own delinquent subculture
- turn society's values upside down
- status hierarchy
- Cloward and Ohlin's three sub cultural theory
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- deviant subcultures formed because of blocked opportunities
- criminal, conflict and retreatist subcultures
- Miller's focal concerns theory
- 6 focal concerns
- toughness, trouble, excitement. smartness, fate and autonomy
- own goals - not frustrated by failure of mainstream goals
- independent subcultures
- 6 focal concerns
- Matza's delinquency and drift theory
- delinquents drift in and out of crime (no man's land)
- subterranean values
- techniques of neutralisation
- Merton's strain theory
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