Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Postmodernist explanations of
deviant subcultures
- Katz
- There is a pleasure in committing crime
- Most youths in a state of drift and are
unsure of their place in society
- Criticism
- Way to simplistic, some commit crime
because they need their money
- Lyng
- Young males search for pleasure through risk taking
- Risk taking seen as 'edgework' there is a thrill gained by acting on the edge of society/danger
- Accomplishing masculinity
- Criticism
- What about deviant girls