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What is subcultural?

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A smaller group of people that have different norms and values to main culture
So many deviant or criminals

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Merton strain theory?

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Identify different routes people can take, all different norms and values to the rest of society
Conformist vs innovation, ritualist, retreatist and rebellions

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Who are our 5 subcultural theory’s?

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Cohen
Cloward and Ohlin
Miller
Matza
Messner and rosenfeild

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Cohen what is lower class pheonomena?

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Lower class to achieve mainstream success groups they legitimise means

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Cohen what is legitimate illegitimate?

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To obtain culturally approved goals and wealth

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Cohen what’s utilitarian crime?

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Crime committed for material gain e.g. theft

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Cohen- what is cultural deprivation?

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Where a persons has inferior norms values and knowledge

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What is delinquent subculture?

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Encourages and justifies behaviour defined as delinquents by larger societysb

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Cohen- what is invert?

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To gain respect from peers by doing the opposite to what you should do

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Cohen- what’s status frustration?

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Face anomie in the m/c dominated school system as they suffer from cultural deprivation and a lack of skills, as a result of being unable to achieve status by legitimate means and education

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How to resolve status frustration cohen?

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Resolve this by rejecting mainstream middle class values and they turn to other boys in the same situation froming and joining delinquent subcultures

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What is the alternative status higherarchy cohen?

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Offers the boys an alternative status higherarchy in which they can achieve
Failing the legitimate opportunity structure
Boys create own illegitimate opportunity structures in which they win status via peers from delinquent theory e.g. solving and fighting

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Strength of cohen?

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Offered explanation from non utilitarians deviance
Unlike Merton whose concept of innovation only accounts form utilitariansm
It helps explain non economic delinquency e.g. vandalism truancy

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Weakness of cohen theory?

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Assumes a/c boys share middle class success goals only when they reject these when they fail ignores the possibility that they didn’t share goals in first place so never saw themselves as failure

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Cloward and Ohlin- illegitimate’s oppertunity structures?

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Delinquents develops as young People aren’t able to achieve, valued goals through conventional means e.g. not everyone can be drug deals due to networks in place

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What are the 3 deviants subcultures according to cloward and Ohlin?

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Criminal conflict retreatisy

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Criminal subculture cloward and Ohlin?

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Provide youth with an apprenticeship for career in utilitarianism crime arising only neighbourhoods with long-standing stable criminals cultures with established hierarchy and professional adult crime young association with adult crime selective those with abilities regarding the training as well as employment and other crime ladders

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Conflict subculture cloward and Ohlin?

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High population turnovers so high disorganized prevent a stable, professional criminal network developing
Absence means only legitimation opportunities available with loose organised gangs provide release from men frustration at blocked opportunities and alternative source of status they can be winning turf from rival gangs

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Retreatist subculture cloward and Ohlin?

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Any Neighbourhood not a professional criminal organised gang leader succeed
just legitimate opportunity structures we’re not everyone gets a well pay job becomes a double failure those who fail and legitimate and illegitimate opportunity structures return to legal drug use 

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Strengths of cloward and Ohlin?

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Most crime is working class, ignoring crime of the wealthy
similarly that their theory over predict the amount of working glass crime
ignores the wider power structure, including those who may enforce the rules

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Weekness of cloward and Ohlin?

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Provide an explanation for different types of working class deviance in terms of different sub cultures
Reactive over predictive amount of wc crime

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What are the 6 focal concerns of w/c miller?

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Smartness
Trouble
Excitement
Toughness
Autonomy
Fate

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Smartness focal concerns of w/c miller?

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A person should both look good and also be whitty with sharp repartee

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Trouble focal concerns of w/c miller?

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I don’t go looking for trouble, but

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Excitement focal concerns of w/c miller?
It is important to search out thrills
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Excitement focal concerns of w/c miller?
It is important to search out thrills
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Toughness focal concerns of w/c miller?
Being physically stronger than others is good it’s also important to be able to demonstrate this
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Autonomy focal concerns of w/c miller?
It’s important not to be pushed around by others
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Fate- focal concerns of w/c miller?
Individuals have a little chance to overcome the wider fate that awaits them
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How do focal concerns create crime miller?
The young lower class males are pushed towards crime by the values of their subcultures
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Evaluation of miller?
Vocal concern is based on behavior of males and is deterministic by nature Marxists would suggest the working class values of subcultural only because of the ruling class controls of the institution Positive – explained youth crimes
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Maza subterranean values – suppressed?
Act of controlling or suppressing individuals
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Matza, subterranean values- subterranean?
values behind deviant behavior
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Matza subterranean – neutralize?
Individuals rationalize behavior that is considered criminal
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Matza- what is drift?
We all share delinquent vales leading to deviance but most of the time people can supress these This is a learned skill but we are more likely to commit crime when were young so it lessens as we age People are neither conformist nor devient so people can drift between both throughout life
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Matza- techniques of neutralisation?
If people really ad a different set of values when behaving deviently, they would believe their deviant behaviour was correct But people quickly see ways to justify behaviour in terms of mainstream values
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Matza- techniques of neutralisation examples?
Denial of responsibility- it wasn't me Denial of injury- it didn't hurt Denial of the victim- you deserved it Condemnation of the condemners- your just as bad Appeal to higher loyalty's- i did it for my country
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How does matzas theory differ from others?
We all share the delinquent values leading some people to criminal and deviant behaviour but most of us keep supressed
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Eval of matza?
Techniques of neutralisation have the appearance of excuses and can be an attempt to avoid punishment -Can be delinquent as a child but be respectable as adult
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Messner and Rosenfield- institutional anomie theory, american dream?
Citizens in the USA should have equal means to success
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Messner and Rosenfield- inculating?
to fix beliefs or ideas in someone's mind, especially by repeating them often
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Messner and Rosenfield- theory?
Obsession with money and success produces pressure towards crime as it produces an anything goes mentality in order for wealth
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Messner and Rosenfield- how do downey and hansey agree?
In 18 country's they found societies that spent more on welfare had lower rates of imprisonment Backing up that society's that protect the poor from the worse exercise the free market have less crime
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Messner and Rosenfield- how does this back up marxists?
Crime and violences as a result of control caused by imbalance of values favoring economy Proletariat are exposed to crime due to imbalance
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Eval- gender?
Very little research carried out on female gang activity with the assumption that women don't join gangs
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Eval- gender thrasher?
Only 6 female gangs 'auxiliary in nature' have limited role in the gang and exist to serve the male gang members
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Eval- gender Hunt?
Interviewed 141 female gang members from SFUS although committed crime, they conformed to traditional gender roles
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Eval- social class Korem?
Conducted research on m/c gang over 7yrs in the UK and US, m/c boys are forming gangs in increasing numbers Key reasoning could be due to family problems e.g. divorce gangs becomes a suffer of the family, better predictors then income
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Eval- masculinity Collinson?
In order to explain male offending behaviour, important to explain in nature of being male in society linking masculinity
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Eval- masculinity Connell?
Hegemonic masculinity which males both conspire with aspire to
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Eval- masculinity Winlow?
Traditional w/c more values have little physical work undertaken by men in industrial settings These have now gone and values are inappropriate in contemporary excluded Issue is that men are no excluded by employment
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Eval- postmodernism?
Pm, rejects the idea that to explain deviant behaviour by looking for rational reason why the subculture must have developed
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Eval- pm Katz?
Crimes seductive Young males get drawn to it not because of rejection but due to thrill
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Eval- pm Lyng?
young males like taking risk and engage in edgework (flirting with danger)

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