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Functionalism: Durkheim.

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Positives of crime:
Boundary maintenance.
Reaffirms existing values.
Functional rebels (Nelson Mandela).
Stronger community cohesion (riots).

Negatives of crime:
Anomie (weak/unclear collective conscious).
Egoism (collective conscious too weak to restrain selfish desires).

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Functionalism: Merton.

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Western culture values competition, wealth and success.
In order to achieve these goals, there are five responses:
Conformity (limited success)
Innovation (uses crime)
Ritualism (regulated by their job)
Retreatism (goals rejected, turn to drugs/alcohol)
Rebellion (other goals are substituted).

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Functionalism: AK Cohen.

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Two functions of deviance:
Acts as a safety valve.
Shows that an aspect of society is dysfunctional.

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Functionalism: Evaluation.

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Difficult to accept a single consensus.
Overemphasises collective conscious.
Does not explain all crimes.
Does not.explain why some are more prone to deviance.

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Subcultural: AK Cohen.

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Lower class boys suffer status frustration. They lack the same means to achieve goals and feel inadequate. In response, they form antischool subcultures.

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Subcultural: Cloward and Ohlin.

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Delinquency drift - in and out of subcultures.

Class of subcultures:
Criminal: role models, follow a hierarchy.
Conflict: gangs, gain respect through violence.
Retreatist: double failures, turn to drugs and alcohol.

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Subcultural: Evaluation.

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Does not explain utilitarian crime or female delinquency.
Difficult to nearly categorise crimes.
Assumes the different classes share the same goals.

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Marxism: Overview.

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Criminal law benefits the ruling class.
Legitimised use of violence through laws/police/army.
Capitalism emphasised by the criminal justice system and media.
Tax evaders are warned, benefit fraud is prosecuted.
Low prosecution of white collar crimes.

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Marxism: Snider.

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Laws threatening corporations are rarely passed or not enforced. Corporate crimes are more harmful than street crimes but less prosecuted. Easier to prosecute individuals.

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Marxism: Chambliss.

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Criminogenic capitalism. Crime is expected in capitalist societies.
Inadequate welfare provision encourages crimes.
Dog-eat-dog mentality.

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Marxism: Taylor, Walton and Young.

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Should consider wider aspects of crime. Crime is a conscious and deliberate choice.

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Marxism: Evaluation.

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Ignores non-class inequalities.
Overpredicts working class crime.
Japan and Switzerland are capitalist societies with low crime rates.
Corporations are prosecuted (Wolf of Wall Street).

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Interactionist: Lemert.

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Primary deviance - rule breaking.

Secondary deviance - consequence of the response of others.

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Interactionist: Cohen.

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Disintegrative shaming - removed from society.
Reintegrative shaming - emphasis on act over individual.
Demonisation of whole groups through the media leads to moral panics and formation of subcultures.

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Interactionist: Cicourel.

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Typification of a criminal: poor, single parent, working class, ethnic minority.
Middle class parents can negotiate children out of trouble.
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Interactionist: Evaluation.

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Blames police/doctors as agents of inequality rather than the source (ruling class).

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Right Realist: Overview.

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Crime is caused by:
Biological predisposition.
Socialisation.
Rational choice.

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Right Realist: Murray.

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Working class lack male role models leading to a culture of dependency.
Tougher sentencing needs punishment to outweigh the rewards.
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Right Realist: Wilson.

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Damaged architecture, leads working class to believe authority does not care.

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Right Realist: Wilson and Kelling.

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Broken windows theory: monitoring and maintenance. Zero tolerance policing.
Ignores areas which have lost social order.

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Right Realist: Evaluation.

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Development of ‘stop, question and frisk’. Zero tolerance policing reduced crime. Focuses on minor offences. Ignores causes. Increased prison population.

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Left Realist: Lea and Young.

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Inequality causes crime. Marketisation increases relative deprivation. High modernity leads to high cultural inclusion but social and economic exclusion.

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Left Realist: Kinsey, Lea and Young.

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Consensus policing - democratically elected police force.

Full investigations to increase crime detection.

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Left Realist: Evaluation.

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Development of tougher sentencing.

Hughes: if relative deprivation was the cause, there would be more crime.

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Ethnicity: Bowling and Phillips.
Victimisation risk - 7.2% non white, 5% white. Ethnic minorities live in higher victimisation areas. More likely to be young, unemployed and spend their leisure time in public areas. Black/Asian more likely to be stopped and searched. More likely to remain silent, seek support and deny the offence.
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Ethnicity: Hall.
Young black men were the scapegoats of the 1970s moral panic due to stereotyping.
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Ethnicity: Gilroy.
Myth of black criminality - overrecorded due to police stereotypes and racist labelling. Black crimes are political.
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Ethnicity: Evaluation.
Most black crimes are interracial and therefore cannot be political.
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Social Class: Overview.
``` Most criminals are from a working class background. Of 2000 prisoners between 2006-2007, 42% had no qualifications. Middle class crimes are underrepresented. ```
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Social Class: Reiner.
Crimes of the poor are more visible.
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Social Class: Marx.
Lumpenproletariat - working class not in work, income is from begging, prostitution or utilitarian crime.
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Social Class: Miller.
Working class - toughness, smartness, excellence. Leads to deviance.
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Gender: Overview.
Males commit more violent crimes, women are more likely to shoplift.
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Gender: Pollack.
Women are more skilled in deception because of menstruation. Chivalry thesis: women are treated more leniently because society is socialised into being protective. Women are more likely to be warned or let off prison.
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Gender: Walklate.
Criminal justice system is tougher on women: rapists are not found guilty, domestic violence is not taken seriously. Caused embarrassment in court.
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Gender: Heidensohn.
Double deviant - broken laws and social norms. Tougher sentences. Fewer opportunities to commit crimes.
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Gender: Carlen.
Crimes of the powerless. Childless women more likely to be punished than women with children.
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Globalisation: Overview.
Illicit drugs, weapons, human trafficking, corruption, violent/war crimes.
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Globalisation: Held.
Globalisation leads to interconnectedness which leads to more cybercrime.
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Globalisation: Castells.
Supply (3rd) and demand (Western) harms culture, politics and economy. Leads to preference of criminal careers.
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Globalisation: Taylor.
State spending on welfare has declined.
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Globalisation: Hobbs and Dunningham.
Loose-knit network, 'glocal' system. Working together instead of in permanent gangs.
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Media: Overview.
Immediacy, dramatisation, personalisation, higher status, simplification, novelty, risk, violence. Media is an ideological state apparatus.
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Media: Cohen.
The media creates moral panics by exaggeration, distortion, prediction and symbolisation.
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Media: Thornton.
The line between deviance and normality is blurred.
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Media: McRobbie and Thornton.
Moral panics have less impact, used to shock.
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Media: Jewkes.
New and old ways of committing crimes.
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Media: Wall.
Cybertrespass, cyberdeception, cyberpornography, cyberviolence.
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Green Crime: South.
Primary environmental crimes are legal or not enforced but cause damage. Zemiology - crimes should be dealt with in terms of the harm caused. Nature is exploited for corporate profit.
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Green Crime: Beck.
Risk society - lack of resource, overcome by science/technology.
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Green Crime: Sutton.
Richer people can afford to live in least affected areas.
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Green Crime: White.
Damage to environment = damage to humans.
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Green Crime: Evaluation.
Raises awareness. | Crimes are subjective.
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Human Rights: McLaughlin.
Political, police, economic, social, cultural crimes.
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Human Rights: H and J Schwendinger.
Duty of sociology to support human rights and expose abuses.
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Human Rights: Cohen.
Claims event did not happen, redefining event, abuses prevent greater harm.
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Human Rights: Evaluation.
Unable to enforce universal human rights.
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Crime Control: Felson.
Preventing situational crime - likely offender and a likely target with no guardian to discourage. Crime is opportunistic. Target hardening. Designing out crime - Port Authority Bus Terminal.
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Crime Control: Durkheim.
Mechanical solidarity and collective conscious. Prefers restorative justice.
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Crime Control: Rusche and Kirchheimer.
Early middle ages - religious penance and fines. Later middle ages - harsh punishments. 17th Century - prisoners as a subservient workforce.
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Crime Control: Goffman.
Mortification of self - inmates degraded/humiliated. Prisoners made more criminal. Increased prison population, crime rate decreased.
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Crime Control: Foucalt.
Surveillance manages behaviour.
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Crime Control: Evaluation.
Ignores underlying causes and other types of crime.
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Victimisation: Christie.
Victims are stereotyped as weak.
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Victimisation: Miers.
Most likely victims are young men, alcoholics, minority ethnic groups, working class. Victim precipitation causes victim blaming.
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Victimisation: Mawby and Walklate.
Victims have rights which need honouring.
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Victimisation: Tombs and Whytes.
Victims of corporate crimes, extent is observed.
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Criminal Justice System: Foucalt.
Sovereign power is over disciplinary power. | Panoptic prisons, jailors can view from one place, self monitoring.
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Criminal Justice System: Garland.
Penal welfarism - rehabilitation and reintegration. Adaptive response - intervene early, expressive strategy. Crime is central to politics. Sovereign state strategy - control through sanctions.
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Criminal Justice System: Cohen.
Use of other professions, wider use of state power.
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Sociologists: Functionalism.
Durkheim, Merton, AK Cohen.
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Sociologists: Subcultural.
AK Cohen, Cloward and Ohlin.
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Sociologists: Marxism.
Snider, Chambliss, Taylor, Walton and Young.
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Sociologists: Interactionist.
Lemert, Cohen, Cicourel.
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Sociologists: Right Realist.
Murray, Wilson, Wilson and Kelling.
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Sociologists: Left Realist.
Lea and Young, Kinsey, Lea and Young.
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Sociologists: Ethnicity.
Bowling and Phillips, Hall, GIlroy.
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Sociologists: Social Class.
Reiner, Marx, Miller.
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Sociologists: Gender.
Pollack, Walklate, Heidensohn, Carlen.
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Sociologists: Globalisation.
Held, Castells, Taylor, Hobbs and Dunningham.
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Sociologists: Media.
Cohen, Thornton, McRobbie and Thornton, Jewkes, Wall.
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Sociologists: Green Crime.
South, Beck, Sutton, White.
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Sociologists: Human Rights.
McLaughlin, H and J Schwendinger, Cohen.
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Sociologists: Crime Control.
Felson, Durkheim, Rusche and Kirchheimer, Goffman, Foucalt.
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Sociologists: Victimisation.
Christie, Miers, Mawby and Walklate, Tombs and Whytes.
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Sociologists: Criminal Justice System.
Foucalt, Garland, Cohen.

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