Subcultural Strain Theories
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- Created on: 05-06-13 17:06
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- Subcultural Strain Theories
- A.K. Cohen: Status Frustration
- Crime results from the inability of W/C boys to achieve mainstream success goals in the education system
- So they suffer Status frustration
- they resolve this by forming or joining a delinquent subculture
- So they suffer Status frustration
- Alternative Status Hierarchy
- They create their own illegitimate opportunity structure in which they can achieve through delinquent actions
- Evaluation
- Assumes that the W/C start of with M/C success goals
- Crime results from the inability of W/C boys to achieve mainstream success goals in the education system
- Cloward and Ohlin: three subcultures
- Evaluation
- ignores the crimes of the wealthy
- The boundaries are too tight
- Wrongly assumes the W/C start of with M/C success goals
- Not everyone resorts to 'innovation' as a result of lack of legitimate opportunites
- The key reason is unequal access to illegitimate opportunity structures
- 3 Subcultures occur as a result
- Criminal Subcultures
- Provide youths with apprenticeships utilitarian crime -areas with long-standing crime
- Retreatist Subcultures
- Double failures
- Conflict Subcultures
- In places of high population turnover, gangs and violence are the only ways to release their frustration
- Criminal Subcultures
- 3 Subcultures occur as a result
- The key reason is unequal access to illegitimate opportunity structures
- Evaluation
- A.K. Cohen: Status Frustration
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