Crime and Deviance - Theories
- Created by: Charlotte Gough
- Created on: 10-03-14 14:28
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2. Strength - Left Realists offer good explanations and evidence for what....
- Relative Deprivation
- Marginalisation
- Subcultures
- Socialisation
3. Durkheim argues that crime acts as a safety valve that it does not affect institutions such as prostitution in the family. This still applies to today. True or False
- False
- True
4. People have reached the American Dream and have not committed crime. True or false.
- False - Merton cannot explain those who have conformed to goals, norms and values.
- True - Merton makes clear that if people reach the American Dream, they won't commit crime at all because they have conformed.
5. Cohen talks about the explanations of non-utilitarian crime whereas Merton fails to provide this. True or False
- True
- False
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