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1
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Durkheim (1895)

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FUNCTIONALIST
Crime exists due to industrialisation (undermines power of agencies of social control)
AND; = necessary + beneficial part of S
4 functions

2
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Merton (1968)

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FUNCTIONALIST
Crime has manifest + latent functions
= strain between S goal + accepted means of achieving
= anomie on HOW person achieves Gs
Attaining G = more important than the means
5 responses (conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, rebellion)

3
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AK Cohen (1955)

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SUBCULTURAL FUNCTIONALIST
C = collective response
Stats frustration
c+d = way to achieve status amongst peers
Adopt alternative values (del subc)
4
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Cloward + Ohlin (1960)

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SUBCULTURAL FUNCTIONALIST
Build on Merton’s ideas
Accepted means = legitimate opportunity structure
Reaction to strain depends on enviro grow up in
3 responses/ types subcultures (crimina, conflict, retreatist)

5
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Miller (1962)

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SUBCULTURAL FUNCTIONALISTS
Each class has its own values, passed from generation to generation
Each class sees their ‘focal concerns’ as superior
wc male subculture provides way to cope with life
3 unique focal concerns
Toughness, smartness, excitement

6
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Matza

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INTERACTIONIST
Uses to evaluate sub. functionalists - too deterministic
Everybody has subterranean values
Mostly expressed in accepted ways
Sometimes expressed in wrong time/ place (d)
Techniques of neutralisation (justification)
‘Delinquency + drift’ - not permanent

7
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Chambliss (1976)

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MARXIST
Capitalism encourages consumer greed
also produces relative deprivation

8
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Gordon (1976)

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MARXIST
C = rational response to capitalism
Found in ALL social classes
BUT stats: = wc

9
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Snider (1997)

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Laws that threaten big businesses = unlikely to be passes

e.g. fiar trade laws, health + safety leg