Crime and deviance-functionalists

1. According to Hirschi, what are the 4 crucial bonds that binds us together?

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Where an entire community comes together after a horrific crime and creates a sense of belonging, strengthening the community.
When someone breaks the law, the resulting court sentence and publicity re-affirms the existing values.
When someone who is breaking the law is treated with sympathy at the court, the public outcry to this would symbolise changing values.
Some crime can act as a pressure release for workers.

Crime can weaken the adherence to the collective conscience and therefore freed from its social control. People start looking for their own needs this is is anomie
Crime will bring harm to others in the community , meaning people are not close or bound to their community, making the deviant strays.
It is against the law, which is created to protect others from harm.
Individuals can be hurt mentally and physically, and for ethical reasons this is not right.

Crime is evidence for a poor fit between socially accepted goals and the socially acceptable means of achieving these goals.
We all follow a set of norms, those who do not agree to these, deviate away from it and creates crime.
The formation of subcultures and the poor relationship between us and them is what creates crime.
It is the ruling class power and exploitation of the working class that creates anger and deviance.