🏠 Cohen: Status Frustration

Question 1

Cohen: Status Frustration

Answer 1

Crime is a group response to unequall access to society’s goal of wealth.

Question 2

Cohen: Status Frustration - Status frustration

Answer 2

Working class boys end up at the bottom of school’s official status hierarchy and feel frustrated and
worthless

Question 3

Cohen: Status Frustration - Subcultures

Answer 3

Subcultures offer a solution by
providing an alternate stacus hierarchy in which society’s values are inverted - they gain status by being deviant

Question 4

Cloward and Ohlin: 3 Subcultures

Answer 4

Different neighbourhoods give rise to different types of deviant subcultures

Question 5

Cloward and Ohlin: Criminal subcultures

Answer 5

Arise in areas where there is a
longstanding protessional criminall network. They select youths for an
‘apprenticeship’ in utilitarian crime and fucure criminal careen

Question 6

Cloward and Ohlin: Conflict
subcultures

Answer 6

Arise where the only criminal
ondortunities are within street gangs.
Violence is a release for frustration and a source of status earned by winning territory from rival gangs.

Question 7

Cloward and Ohlin: Retreatist subcultures

Answer 7

Made up of dropouts who have failed in both the legiamate and illegitimatel opportunity structures. Often based on drug use.

Question 8

Cloward and Ohlin - strengths

Answer 8

• These theories show hov subcultures perform a function for
  their members by ontering solutions to the problem of failing to achieve goals legiumately
• Cloward and Ohlin show how different types of neighbourhood
  give rise to dierent mllegitimate opportunities and subcultures

Question 9

Cloward and Ohlin - limitations

Answer 9

• Ignore crimes of wealthy and over predicts working class crime
• Assume everyone starts with mainstream goals and turns to a subculture when they fail to achieve them, but some don’t share those goals in the first place and may be attracted to crime for other
  reasons.
• Actual subcultures are not a clear-
  cut as Cloward and Onlin claim.
  Some show characteristics of all
  three types