Everyone wants power, but how one obtains power is what sets people apart. If a person is a CEO of a company or a doctor, society is likely to visualise said person as powerful and in control of his/ her life, since he/ she has worked arduous in life to gain their title. However, gaining power over another can be considered deviant based on how to power was gained. For example, rape and murder can be powerful on account that “Murder is the ultimate demonstration of control” (ABC News, 2004).
Merton’s Strain Theory suggests that a certain level of deviance is needed within a group to properly function, however the group can allow an excess amount of deviance allowing the group to become dysfunctional and out of control. For example, if …show more content…
For example, in India men have been known to rape together in “gang rape” (Harris, 2013). With multiple people committing a crime together the individual people of the group feel they have more power and are immune to the punishment by virtue of the comfort the group provides. On the other hand Americans have a tighter policy to rape and murder, for example, “Mutzing, … asked Baker to get an abortion and she refused. Two months later (after dropping an anti- ulcer medication in her drink) she lost the child she was carrying. Muntzing was arrested in August 2000 after police…. saw him tamper with another drink meant for Baker” (ABC News, 2004). People from India become immune from crimes considering the society is more lenient, however in America it is more burdensome to escape the same …show more content…
Hirschi says there is four types that links conformity. In “Pregnant mothers often die of murder” the men of this article believe that they will be absconded with murdering pregnant women being “A yearlong examination by the Washington Post of death- record data in states across the country documents the killings of 1,367 pregnant women and new mothers since 1990. This is only part of the national toll, because no reliable system is in place to track such cases.” (St. George, 2004). The men believe that they can eliminate the child considering there are no official records that keep track of women killed when pregnant. Opportunity is another of the four an example of opportunity would be “A report released Saturday by the Asian Center for Human Rights said 48,338 cases of child rape were reported in India from 2001 to 2011. The number of cases reported annually more than tripled during that time, it said, to 7,112 in 2011 from 2,113 in 2001.” (Harris, 2013). In India it has become easier for men to rape on the grounds that there is an abundance of cases, there was no way the police force is going to look through all of the cases. The final two types are attachment and Involvement. Attachment occurs when there is a strong attachment within a group, family, or relationship. While involvement is a means of completing a task to gain power for the
Merton’s Strain Theory suggests that a certain level of deviance is needed within a group to properly function, however the group can allow an excess amount of deviance allowing the group to become dysfunctional and out of control. For example, if …show more content…
For example, in India men have been known to rape together in “gang rape” (Harris, 2013). With multiple people committing a crime together the individual people of the group feel they have more power and are immune to the punishment by virtue of the comfort the group provides. On the other hand Americans have a tighter policy to rape and murder, for example, “Mutzing, … asked Baker to get an abortion and she refused. Two months later (after dropping an anti- ulcer medication in her drink) she lost the child she was carrying. Muntzing was arrested in August 2000 after police…. saw him tamper with another drink meant for Baker” (ABC News, 2004). People from India become immune from crimes considering the society is more lenient, however in America it is more burdensome to escape the same …show more content…
Hirschi says there is four types that links conformity. In “Pregnant mothers often die of murder” the men of this article believe that they will be absconded with murdering pregnant women being “A yearlong examination by the Washington Post of death- record data in states across the country documents the killings of 1,367 pregnant women and new mothers since 1990. This is only part of the national toll, because no reliable system is in place to track such cases.” (St. George, 2004). The men believe that they can eliminate the child considering there are no official records that keep track of women killed when pregnant. Opportunity is another of the four an example of opportunity would be “A report released Saturday by the Asian Center for Human Rights said 48,338 cases of child rape were reported in India from 2001 to 2011. The number of cases reported annually more than tripled during that time, it said, to 7,112 in 2011 from 2,113 in 2001.” (Harris, 2013). In India it has become easier for men to rape on the grounds that there is an abundance of cases, there was no way the police force is going to look through all of the cases. The final two types are attachment and Involvement. Attachment occurs when there is a strong attachment within a group, family, or relationship. While involvement is a means of completing a task to gain power for the