Functionalism and crime

Question 1

Durkheim

Answer 1

• boundary maintenance
• adaptation for change
• safety valve (Polsky and Davis)
• disappearance of Shannon Matthews
  x Marxists- no value consensus. ideological state apparatus, capitalist ideology

Question 2

strain theory (Merton)

Answer 2

• explains anomie in detail- can be transformable to any Western society.
  x doesn’t explain why some people have a harder time achieving society’s goals.

Question 3

Hirschi’s bonds of attachment

Answer 3

• looks at why people don’t commit crime
• there are four bonds of attachment which keep people close to the value consensus
• attachment, commitment, involvement, belief
  x why do some have strong bonds of attachment and others don’t

Question 4

Cohen’s status frustration

Answer 4

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