Durkheim on crime & deviance.
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- Durkheim on crime and deviance
- Socialisation + social control
- The inevitability of crime
- Functionalists
- Too much crime = debilitating to society
- Crime = inevitable + universal
- Why are C&D found in all societies?
- Not everyone is equally and affectively socialised into shared norms+values
- Different groups develop their own subcultures
- What members of the subculture see as normal may not fit with mainstream idea of norm.
- Modern societies = normlessness
- Diversity = collective conscience = weakened
- Functionalists
- Positive functions of crime
- Boundary maintainace
- Purpose of punishment
- reaffirm societies norms and values
- Reinforce social solidarity
- Purpose of punishment
- Boundary maintainace
- Criticism
- Doesn't explain how much deviance is needed for successful functioning
- Existence of crime in terms of its supposed function
- Doesn't means society creates crime in advance with the intention of strengthening social solidarity
- Ignores how crime affects individuals
- Courtroom
- dramatises wrong doings
- Stigmatises the offender
- Boundary maintainace
- Purpose of punishment
- reaffirm societies norms and values
- Reinforce social solidarity
- Purpose of punishment
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