Subcultural perspectives of crime
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- Created on: 09-01-14 15:49
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- Subculturalist perspectives of crime and deviance
- Albert Cohen 1955
- American subculture- similar to STRAIN theory
- JD caused by strain between cultural goals & institutional means of achieving them
- Status frustration
- Young boys recognise achieving academic success would be v difficult- low self-esteem due to lack of qualities- low paid jobs- unemployment
- Cloward + Ohlin 1961
- Developed Cohen's ideas
- Explain WC crimes in terms of goals, but disagree that they share same values
- WC delinquents as sharing own deviant subcultural values- 'Blocked opps' develop illegitimate career structure
- Type of crime depends on illegitimate opp structure:
- 1) Criminal subculture
- 2) Conflict subculture
- 3) Retreatist subculture
- Walter Miller
- WC USA boys get into trouble because they have different set of norms/values
- Socialised into deviant subcultural values
- FOCAL CONERNS
- 3 Main concerns:
- Trouble
- Excitment
- Toughness
- Concerns make it inevitable that they will break law- do not do it deliberately by FC lead to it
- David Matza
- Interactionist critique of subcultural theory
- Young people drift in/out of deviance as part of growing up
- Young less skilled at suppressing SUBTERRANEAN VALUES- use techniques of neutralisation to justfy them
- SV- A set of deviant values that exist alongside socially approved values, but are usually kept hidden. May emerge in certain social situations (drinking/drugs)
- Albert Cohen 1955
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