Subcultural Theories on Crime and Deviance
All the subcultural theories on crime and deviance.
- Created by: Jessica Hewett
- Created on: 03-06-13 16:04
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- Subcultural Theories...
- Chicago School
- Ethnographic stud, growth of population of 10,000 in 1860 to 2,000,000 in 1910,
- Suggest 'nothing' wrong with deviants, simply see the world differently.
- Albert Cohen
- Status frustration
- Commit crimes to gain status
- Committed usually by those from a deprived background with poor job oppertunities.
- Status is usually achieved or denied at school through streaming.
- Top rewards, lower sets feel 'stupid' and branded 'failures'.
- Lower set boys therefore develop their own subculture.
- These revolve around violence, rudeness and stealing etc.
- It is a collective responce to status frustration, it gives them a set of values to compete for status amoung peers as a way of getting back into society.
- Status frustration
- Walter Miller
- Working class juvienile delinquency, acting out mainstream values of the working class subculture.
- Have developed 'focal concerns' which is giving meaning to their lives outside work.
- Living out focal concerns e.g.seeing violence as acceptable, compensate for boredom.
- Simular to New Right and Charles Murray
- Cloward and Ohlin
- Developed from Merton's Strain,illigitimate oppertunity structures, could be seen a regular 'career' to commit crime.
- CRIMINAL; sucessful role models, a 'ladder',that mirrors a legitimate business in specific roles and promotion.
- CONFLICT; gangs, territorial/respect driven violence. Found in areas lacked organised drive structure, plus increased population turnover. Hard for young people to resist for fear or fun.
- RETREATIST; turn to alcohol or drugs if can't do previous2, turn to burglary and substance abuse.
- No talk of Female crime.
- What about domestic and child abuse?
- Developed from Merton's Strain,illigitimate oppertunity structures, could be seen a regular 'career' to commit crime.
- People commit crimes because they share different values to that of the rest of society.
- They have altered or amended to justify criminal behaviour, so form subcultures.
- Chicago School
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