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Marxism |
Crime is inevitable in a capitalist society, Bourgeoise want the proletariat to conform and they use societies institutions as a means of social control, White-collar crime is ignored whereas low level crime street crime is focused on Proletariat are more likely to be criminals Governments fabricate statistics to make lower class crimes seem more serious |
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Functionalism |
Crime is inevitable as not every member is committed to each societies value and belief system Crime is functional unless there is too much or too little Can change views or opinions in society Strengthens social cohesion Maintains societies boundaries |
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Strain Theory |
Society encourages everyone to reach material success but not everyone can due to different amounts of opportunities Working class feel strain and anomie People can either conform Innovate - criminal ways of gaining material Become ritualistic and lose sight of goals Become retreatist and drop out of society And rebel by creating different goals |
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Interactionism |
Crime is a social construct Once an act becomes deviant, then people see themselves as deviant and leads to a self fulfilling prophecy Media contributes to this further by creating moral panic and creating folk devils Deviancy application as it is reported more and more people worry about it |
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Right realism |
Charles Murray - everyone is tempted to commit crime but social bonds stop us from doing so Underclass - kids growing up in single parent families do not have appropriate role model parents and commit crime to prove that they are men Economic factors are not the reason for rising crime rates When an individual has weak social constraints on them, they are more likely to commit crime - social control is important in stopping crime |
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Left realism |
Crime is because of the inequalities created by capitalist society Practical and long term methods both need to be taken into account Capitalism doesn't deliver to all So people rely on crime to get to societies materialistic goals Gradual social change is essential to stopping crime |
