Func, Strain and cubculture Flashcards
Key thinkers and ideas
Durkheim
Positive Functions of Crime
Boundary maintenance : teaches rest of society not to go against norms/values
Adaptation and change: some crime can be functional to society
Strain Theory
Merton: crime is caused by the failure to achieve the goals of the American dream through legitimate means
5 Deviant adaptations to strain
Conformity:
Innovation
Ritualism
Reatreatism
Rebellion**
Status fustration
A.K. Cohen
Top Boy
Cloward and Ohlin 3 subcultures
Criminal , conflict and retreatists
Durkheim
Crime is inevitable
Conformity
accepting the goals and legitimate means to achieve them
Innovation
subscribe to goals of American dream illegally
Ritualism
reject goals but conform to means
Retreatism
Reject both goals of AD and subscribe to illegitimate means
American Dream
Rebellion
Replace the goals and means with their own.
Anomie
The breakdown of any moral values
Durkheim : when there is rapid social change because existed norms becom
