subcultural theory in crime and deviance
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- Subcultural theories of Crime and Deviance
- Functionalist
- Cohen (1971)
- Status Frustration- is a sense of frustration within an individual or group who is denied status within society
- He argued that working-class youths believe in success but because of the failure in education and living in deprived areas means that they are unable to achieve these goals through approved means
- Because of status frustration they adapted to the situation by developing an alternative set of values, this creates a delinquent subculture
- This means that- stealing replaces hard work and vandalism replaces respect for property
- Cloward and Ohlin
- he said that there are 3 different subcultures that young people could enter
- criminal subcultures-This emerges in areas where there is a lot of organized crime. This provides criminal role models that teach delinquents how to commit crime. They normally commit crimes that have financial yield
- utilitarianism- crimes that are done for money
- conflict subcultures- emerges in areas with little organized crime. people focuse on gang violence
- Retreatists subculture- these are people who have failed to commit criminal acts. that leads them to retreat to drugs and alcohol
- criminal subcultures-This emerges in areas where there is a lot of organized crime. This provides criminal role models that teach delinquents how to commit crime. They normally commit crimes that have financial yield
- he said that there are 3 different subcultures that young people could enter
- Walter B Miller 1950s
- He said that deviant subcultures do not arrive from the inability to succeed
- crime is a result of lower-class subcultures with different values
- Toughness- important trait but manifests as violence
- smartness- outwit people. pickpocket and con in smart ways
- excitement- search for the thrill. gambling or sexual adventures
- autonomy- important not to be pushed around
- fate- little chance of overcoming there wider fate that awaits them.
- focal concerns - things people want to achieve
- He said that deviant subcultures do not arrive from the inability to succeed
- Cohen (1971)
- Functionalist
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