AQA A2 Sociology- Subcultural Theory of Crime
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- Subcultural Theories and Crime
- Cloward and Ohlin
- 3 types of subculltures
- Criminal: they work their up the hiearchy
- Conflict: no opportunity in legitimate or illegitimate world = anger and frustration
- Retreatists: fail at legitimate and illegitimate world = turn to drugs/alcohol
- Evaluation
- Doesn't look at women.
- 3 categories seems too simplistic.
- Only looks at W/C not M/C
- 3 types of subculltures
- Theorists argue that groups develop norms and values different to society's
- A.Cohen
- When people fail to succeed at legitimate life = status frustration so they create new deviant goals, norms and values = delinquent subculture.
- W/C who experience material and cultural deprivation are more likely to form a delinquent subculture.
- Evaluation
- Focuses too much on W/C
- Box- instead of shame and guilt from their failure they resent teachers and the M/C whose norms and values they don't share and who look down on them
- Doesn't look at female crime.
- Miller
- W/C life is characterised by 'focal concerns' (things they want to achieve)
- Being in trouble not out of it.
- Being tough and masculine
- Being streetwise
- Concern for exciting activities
- Deviant subculture don't arise from the inability to achieve success; instead it is a result of the fact that there is a lower-class subculture with different norms and values to the rest of society.
- W/C life is characterised by 'focal concerns' (things they want to achieve)
- S.Cohen
- Mods and Rockers- found that media played a role in amplifying deviance which created more violence.
- Cloward and Ohlin
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