Crime and Deviance

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Becker
Writing from a interactionist perspective, Becker explains crime through the labelling theory and how deviance is a result of selective labelling by agents of social control. labelling-master status- secondary deviance-deviant career.
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Carlen
Writing from a feminist perspective, Carlen uses control theory in which says people turn to crime when the benefits outweigh the cost (gain more than lose). Women who feel they have nothing lose, commit crime to benefit themselves due to poverty.
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Cohen
Writing from a functionalist perspective, Cohen focusses on the 'delinquent boys' and how because of their lack of opportunity, they suffer from status frustration and they turn to crime as a alternative route to success after underachieving in schoo
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Heidensohn
Writing from a feminist perspective, Heidensohn uses control theory to argue that male-dominated patriarch societies control women , making it difficult for women to break the law. Argues women don't have the opportunity to commit crime.
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Merton
Writing from a functionalist perspective, Merton focusses on the strain theory and how there is a strain between societies goals and using legitimate ways to achieve them. When someone cannot achieve these goals, they may turn to criminal activities.
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Durkheim
Writing from a functionalist perspective, crime is seen as normal and the reason working class commit crime is due to inadequate socialisation
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Marxists
They believe economic systems of capitalism create crime. Crime happens due to poverty and inequality. The ruling class create the norms and values and chose what to define as deviant.
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Cohen
Cohen writes about the mass media and crime. A moral panic is a public outrage over an issue which has been stirred up by the media and creates folk devils, who are 'threats' in society but really only shaped that way by the media.
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Writing from a feminist perspective, Carlen uses control theory in which says people turn to crime when the benefits outweigh the cost (gain more than lose). Women who feel they have nothing lose, commit crime to benefit themselves due to poverty.

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