functionalists explanations of crime and deviance
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- functionalist explanations of crime and deviance
- Emile durkheim
- Social control
- In pre - industrial societies society could direct the behaviours of its members
- Consensus
- A general agreement
- has a powerfull influence over personal behaviour
- Anomie
- a sense of moral confusion
- weakens moral norms and values
- encourages crime and deviance
- Crime functions to benefit society
- Promotes positive social change
- highlights aspects of a crime as inadequet
- creates public outrage
- reinforces social solidarity
- punishment shows acceptable boundaries
- minor crimes act as safety valves
- Promotes positive social change
- ignores that crimes can be dysfunctional
- underestimates level of conflict
- Social control
- Merton
- Untitled
- Subcultural explanations
- Albert Cohen
- Walter Miller
- Cloward and Ohlin
- Emile durkheim
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