Sub cultural Theory Neo Functionalism

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Cohan Status frustration (NF)
Cohen for example, argued that the poor, unable to gain an academic education and entry to a profession and the socially approved ways of gaining status, sought instead to seek status in illegitimate ways - that is, through crime.
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Criminal Subcultures cloward and ohlin
tend to emerge in areas where there is a lot of organised adult crime, here there are criminal role models for young people, and they learn how to commit criminal acts. In these subcultures the young people climb up the professional criminal ladder.
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Conflict Subculture cloward and ohlin
tend to emerge in areas where there is little organised adult crime, so instead of learning how to commit serious monetary crimes the young people instead focus on gaining respect through gang violence.
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Retreatist Subculture cloward and ohlin
are for young people who have even failed in the criminal subcultures, these people are ‘double failures’. They tend to retreat to drugs and alcohol abuse to deal with the fact that they have been rejected from other subcultures.
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tend to emerge in areas where there is a lot of organised adult crime, here there are criminal role models for young people, and they learn how to commit criminal acts. In these subcultures the young people climb up the professional criminal ladder.

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are for young people who have even failed in the criminal subcultures, these people are ‘double failures’. They tend to retreat to drugs and alcohol abuse to deal with the fact that they have been rejected from other subcultures.

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