Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Durkheim's
Functionalist theory
- Socialisation
- Social control
- Inevitability of crime
- Every society has crime.
- Crime is healthy part of society
- Allows laws & regulations to be made
- Found becasue not everyone is equal
- Complex societies = differences between individuals
- Anomie = loss of norms
- Positive functions of crime
- Boundry maintenance
- Punishment = To reinstate societies rules
- Done through courts
- Discourages others from committing crimes
- Adaption & Change
- Crime allows societies to change
- Too much crime threatens to tear society apart
- Too little crime measn theres too much control
- Criticisms
- Offers no way of knowing how much crime is the right amount
- Crime does not always improve solidarity
- Doesnt show how crime is functional fo rthe criminals
- Soem people become isolated instead of being more included in society