Zusammenfassung der Ressource
sociological explanations of crime and
deviance
- indequate socialisation
- young people turn to crime due to negative family influence
- New Right believe it is due to parentally deprived homes
- leads to delinquency as kids are inadequately taught norms and values
- social factors
- schools (no discipline)
- (lack of) religion
- media (glamourise crime)
- opertunity structure
- people with less work and educational oppertunities
- more likely to commit crimes like theft, fraud and assult
- relative deprivation
- groups feeling unfairly disadvantaged
- never feel content
- nature of society (marxist view)
- highlights divide between rich and poor
- capitalist based on
- materialism
- thinking money and possessions are most important
- (capitalist) economic and political system
- individuals make profit off businesses and industries
- consumerism
- if people spent money the country will have a strong economy
- competition
- encourages greed and selfishness
- people needs to buy what society tells them to
- rules are made by ruling class
- one law for rich and one for poor
- marxists agree
- labelling theory
- people are identified and treated according to stereotypes
- self fufilling prophecy
- pushes people to crime
- sub-cultural theory
- COHEN
- argues juvenile delinquency is a group phenomenon
- young males mainly
- become part of a gang where delinquency already is.
- link between delinquency and education
- working class boys cannot achieve same expectations as middle class
- experience status fustration
- develop norms and values different from mainstreem society
- anomie
- ROBERT MERTON
- Society set goals people are encouraged to achieve
- when goals are not achieved there is anomie
- people turn to alternatives and may break social rules
- means confusion
- four types of deviancy
- innovators
- achieve goals through illegitimate means
- e.g. fraud or theft
- ritualists
- keep working but not for success
- stuck in dead-end jobs
- no ambition
- retreatists
- abandon goals
- drop-outs
- turn to drink, drugs and other deviant behaviour
- rebels
- reject goals
- replace with their own
- e.g. revolutionalists