Subcultural strain theories

Subculture: A cultural group within a larger culture, often having beliefs/interests at variance with those of the larger culture.

Cohen: Status Frustration

Crime is a lower-class phonomenon because they believe in he success goals of mainstream culture, but their experiences of failure in education living in deprived areas etc.. leave little opportunity to attain them through legitimate means.

Cloward and Ohlin: Three subcultures

Suggest the varied social circumstances in which working class youths live give rise to three types of deviant subculture.

Criminal- theft/utilitarian- devlop in stable working class areas where there is an established pattern of adult crime. Provides learning opportunity/career for…