Strain Theories
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- Created on: 30-01-15 10:26
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- Strain Theories
- Merton
- People commit crimes when they are unable to achieve social goals by legitimate means
- Structural factors- unequal opportunity structure
- Cultural factors- less emphasis of legitimate ways to achieve
- The American Dream
- Example of society have strong sense of goals but not enough legitimate means for everyone to achieve them
- 5 types of adaption to strain
- 1 Conformity
- 2 Innovation
- 3 Ritualism
- 4 Retreatism
- 5 Rebellion
- Cohen
- Status Frustration
- Deviance in W/C boys
- Anomie in M/C dominated school system
- W/C boys unable to achieve in status hierachry
- Boys suffer status frustration, reject M/C goals
- Turn to delinquent subculture
- Subculture offers alternative status hierarchy
- Cloward and Ohlin
- Not everyone turns to innovation
- Subcultures react in different ways
- Unequal access to illegitimate opportunity strcutres
- Different areas have access to different crime levels
- Criminal subcultures- provide youths with jobs leading to a criminal career
- Conflict subcultures- loosely organised gangs
- Retreatist subcultures- double failures, illegal drug use
- Merton
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