Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Functionalism and crime A Level
Summary
- Durkheim
- "crime is normal, an integral part of society"
- causes are diversity, anomie, and how not everyone is effectively socialised
- functions are crime include boundary maintenance
- Merton's Strain Theory
- The American Dream strives us to achieve
- middle class = work to achieve goal, working class have blocked opportunities and innovate in order to achieve
- Adaptions to strain: conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, rebellion
- A. Cohen
- Status frustration
- Cloward and Ohlin
- subcultures
- criminal: provides utilitarian crime, in areas of longstanding criminal activity
- conflict: areas of high population turnover and high levels of social disorganisation, gangs
- retreatist: in any area, can't always turn to organised crime, turn to crimes like drugs