Crimes such as burglary, robbery and theft, which are associated with lower-class offenders are more likely to be prosecuted than crimes such as tax evasion or breaches of health and safety.
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Albert Cohen (1955)
Delinquency is a collective rather than individual response - individuals are joining together to form a collective response with their behaviour. Also does not believe strain theory does not explain why working class males take part in crime.
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Cohen (1955)
Cultural deprivation of working class males black opportunities for legitimate success, creating status frustration and a deviant subculture.
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Cohen (1958) on wc males
Working class males reject mainstream values and replace these with deviant ones.
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Cloward and Ohlin (1961)
Criticise Merton because they believe he fails to acknowledge that there is an illegitimate opportunity structure, which working class males have, as they have less opportunity to access the legitimate opportunity structure.
working class youths techniques of neutralisation. 'Youths are a state of drift', 5 techniques are: Denial of responsibility, denial of wrong doing, injury, condemnation of rule makers, appealing to higher loyalties
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Charles Murray (1989)
Underclass, don't share the same values as mainstream and are responsible for a high proportion of crime, because of their rejection of society's values
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Winlow (2001)
Changing masculinities of men in Sunderland, ethnographic research into bouncers, participants observation
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Shaw and McKay (1942)
CBD, transitional, working class zone, residential zone, commuter zone.
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Sutherland (1940)
White collar crime - crime committed by those in offices.
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Slapper and Tombs (1999)
updated the definition to - crimes committed by the individually rich and powerful which are committed in the furtherance of their own interests. Often against the corporations in which they are working.
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Box (1971)
Mystification the success of the capitalist organisations in convincing the general public, politicians and the media that corporates crimes have less significance.
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Card 2
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Delinquency is a collective rather than individual response - individuals are joining together to form a collective response with their behaviour. Also does not believe strain theory does not explain why working class males take part in crime.
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Albert Cohen (1955)
Card 3
Front
Cultural deprivation of working class males black opportunities for legitimate success, creating status frustration and a deviant subculture.
Back
Card 4
Front
Working class males reject mainstream values and replace these with deviant ones.
Back
Card 5
Front
Criticise Merton because they believe he fails to acknowledge that there is an illegitimate opportunity structure, which working class males have, as they have less opportunity to access the legitimate opportunity structure.
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