Crime is a normal and integral part of all healthy societies, a little bit of crime helps to reaffirm positive values
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Merton
Crime happens when there is a 'strain' between peoples goals and their means to achieve them.
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Merton's Responses
Conformity, Innovation, Ritualism, Retreatism and Rebellion
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Albert Cohen
Young boys labelled as failures by society so suffer from status frustration, joining a gang resolves these feelings as they have an alternative value system
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Cloward & Ohlin
Crime depends on opportunities, three different response: criminal subculture, conflict subculture and retreatist subculture.
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Card 2
Front
Crime happens when there is a 'strain' between peoples goals and their means to achieve them.
Back
Merton
Card 3
Front
Conformity, Innovation, Ritualism, Retreatism and Rebellion
Back
Card 4
Front
Young boys labelled as failures by society so suffer from status frustration, joining a gang resolves these feelings as they have an alternative value system
Back
Card 5
Front
Crime depends on opportunities, three different response: criminal subculture, conflict subculture and retreatist subculture.
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