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views on crime - Coggle Diagram

- - - - ignores crimes of the wealthy e.g white collar
      - provides explanations for different types of crimes and subcultures
  - - - Conformity: people who want to achieve the goals and have the opportunities to do so. (Goals + Means)
      - Innovation: people want to achieve the goals of society but turn to illegitimate means to do so (Goals + no Means)
      - Ritualism: people who have given up on achieving the goals but believe its through their own fault as they had the means (no Goals + but Means)
      - Retreatism: People who reject both goals and means and become dropouts (no Goals + no Means)
      - Rebellion: people who form their own goas and means to create a new society
    - - Marxists say it ignores the way laws criminalise the poor and not the rich
      - assumes value consensus
      - ignores the role that groups may play in society
      - only explains utilitarian crime and not violent and other crimes
- - - - Lea and Young
      - leads to crime because people who are deprived resent others having more material goods than them therefore they resort to illegitimate means
      - AO3
        
        many people who are materially deprived are law abiding
        
        many wealthy people turn to crime e.g white collar
    - - subcultures form as a collective solution to relative deprivation and some may turn to crime in order to close the deprivation gap
      - AO3
        
        people who are not part of subcultures turn to crime
        
        Not all subcultures are criminal
    - - these groups lack clear goals and organisations to represent the, which leads to frustration and resentment
      - this frustration is expressed through criminal acts such as violence
      - AO3
        
        no explanation as for why crime is the outlet pf their frustration as opposed to other behaviours
- - - - Clarke
      - The decision to commit a crime is based on a rational calculation of consequences
      - if benefits outweigh the consequences then people are more likely to offend
      - AO3
    - - Herrnstein and wilson
      - biological differences between individuals make some individuals more predisposed to crime
    - - Murray
      - Crime is increasing due to the mounting underclass who are defined by their deviant behaviour