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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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