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6. What is the negetive side of crime (Durkheim)?

  • It only benefits the rich in society
  • Too much crime leads to social disruption, anomie
  • Helps society change and remain dynamic, builds collective conscience

7. What do Functionalists think about crime and deviance?

  • Positive and Negetive
  • All negetive
  • All positive

8. What type of theory is Functionalism?

  • Strucuturalist theory
  • Social Action theory
  • Interactionalist

9. What are the four crucial bonds in Hirschi's theory?

  • Attachment (care about other opinons), Commitment (personal investments you will lose), Involvement (Time and space for deviant behaviour), Belief (How strong your sense is to obey the rules of society)
  • Re-affirming the boundaries, Changing values, Social cohesion, Safety valve
  • Attachment, Commitment, Social cohesion, Safety valve

10. Who was hevaily influenced by Durkheim but looks at why people don't commit crimes?

  • Merton
  • Hirschi
  • Pasons

11. What was the positive side of crime (Durkheim)?

  • The more attached you are the less you commit crime - only those not needed will commit it
  • Helps society change and remain dynamic, builds collective conscience
  • Too much crime leads to social disruption, anomie

12. Who later adapted and developed anomie?

  • Merton
  • Hirschi
  • Marx

13. What is changning values?

  • Deviant acts can release pressure (eg prostitution releases men's pressure without threatneing the family as an insitution)
  • Any sympathy that crime attracts can prove social change in values and lead to changes in the law
  • The media that crime atttracts publicly re-affirms the values of society

14. What is Hirschi's theory on crime?

  • Criminal activity occurs when people's attachment to society is strengthened in some way. This depends on the strength of social bonds which hold people to society
  • The more attached you are the less you commit crime Crimnal activity occurs when people's attachment to society is weakened in some way. This depends on the strength of social bonds which hold people to society
  • Deviant activity occurs when people's attachment to society is weakened in some way. This depends on the strength of social bonds which hold people to society

15. What were Durkheim's four positive aspects of crime?

  • Re-affirming the boundaries, Changing values, Social cohesion, Safety valve
  • Changing the boundaries, Keeping the same values, Social cohesion, Safety valve
  • Attachment, Commitment, Involvement, Belief

16. How are these bonds taught?

  • By By secondary socialisation only
  • Through socialisation
  • By agents of formal socail control

17. What is social cohesion?

  • Any sympathy that crime attracts can prove social change in values and lead to changes in the law
  • When horrible crimes have taken place, the community strengthens and feels a sense of belonging
  • Deviant acts can release pressure (eg prostitution releases men's pressure without threatneing the family as an insitution)

18. What is the evalutaion of Hirschi?

  • Assumes shared values, fails to explain role of subcultures in crime, Fails to acknowledge victims of crime, accepts official stastics as valid, fails to explore moivations of deviant acts
  • Assumes shared values, someimes social bons lead to deviance (peer groups or subcultures)
  • someimes social bons lead to deviance (peer groups or subcultures), ignores shared values

19. What is safety valve?

  • Deviant acts can release pressure (eg prostitution releases men's pressure without threatneing the family as an insitution)
  • The media that crime atttracts publicly re-affirms the values of society
  • Any sympathy that crime attracts can prove social change in values and lead to changes in the law

20. What is an extra positive function of crime in society?

  • It provides employment in society - lawyers, police, etc
  • It re-affirms the boundaries of what's acceptable in society
  • Allows changing values to appear and influence the law