In social structural theories criminologist are understanding the correlation between individuals and their interactions with others. By looking at the interaction they are able to determine the cause of crime. Monster by Sanyika Shakur is a memoir about his gang life that started when he was eleven years old. Throughout his gang life he becomes the baddest gang member alive while his time was spent in and out of jail. Later into his life he came to a realization that the gang life was not going to help support him and his family. This caused him to drop the lifestyle and working on making a good life for himself. The book provides great examples when trying to connect the theories of social structural, constructionist and interactionist.
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“ I had no idea of peace and tranquility. From my earliest recollections there has been struggle, strife, and the ubiquity of violence” (Shakur & A K A Monster Kody Scott, 2004). This illustrates a weak social integration. The book evidently shows Kody does not live in a great area. There aren’t police offers around patrolling to make sure the gun violence and drugs between the gangs decrease. With that being said there is not a strong dynamic where members in the neighborhood to make sure there the peace is being maintain and youths are being encouraged to go school or be apart of recreations.“ At any given time I was the minister of information, which included such responsibilities as writing on walls, declaring who we were and who we wanted to kill, and verbalizing our intent at gangland supremacy on street corners, on buses, in school yards, and at parties” (Shakur & A K A Monster Kody Scott, 2004). This illustrates a weak moral regulation: Buildings are being vandalized, Kody can decided whether or not someone deserves to live, the gangs are in areas where many people can be effected by the gangs actions. Kody is left at his own self- centered pursuits without enough sense of moral obligation towards …show more content…
Strain theory explains the reason for crime is because of the conflict between goals there people have and other ways in achieving these their goals. When monster first joined the gang his main goal was to become an O.G. (top leader). Individualism explains while achieving the success the person is encouraged to make it on their own without others. This causes them to become “competitors and rivals in the struggle to achieve social rewards and, ultimately, to validate personal worth” (Messner & Rosenfeld 2001). “At any given time I was the minister of information…minister of defense, which entailed organizing and overseeing general troop movement…would fall under the heading instructor; and combat solider” (Shakur & A K A Monster Kody Scott, 2004). This is just an example of Monster achieving his status of being an O.G. and baddest gang member
“ I had no idea of peace and tranquility. From my earliest recollections there has been struggle, strife, and the ubiquity of violence” (Shakur & A K A Monster Kody Scott, 2004). This illustrates a weak social integration. The book evidently shows Kody does not live in a great area. There aren’t police offers around patrolling to make sure the gun violence and drugs between the gangs decrease. With that being said there is not a strong dynamic where members in the neighborhood to make sure there the peace is being maintain and youths are being encouraged to go school or be apart of recreations.“ At any given time I was the minister of information, which included such responsibilities as writing on walls, declaring who we were and who we wanted to kill, and verbalizing our intent at gangland supremacy on street corners, on buses, in school yards, and at parties” (Shakur & A K A Monster Kody Scott, 2004). This illustrates a weak moral regulation: Buildings are being vandalized, Kody can decided whether or not someone deserves to live, the gangs are in areas where many people can be effected by the gangs actions. Kody is left at his own self- centered pursuits without enough sense of moral obligation towards …show more content…
Strain theory explains the reason for crime is because of the conflict between goals there people have and other ways in achieving these their goals. When monster first joined the gang his main goal was to become an O.G. (top leader). Individualism explains while achieving the success the person is encouraged to make it on their own without others. This causes them to become “competitors and rivals in the struggle to achieve social rewards and, ultimately, to validate personal worth” (Messner & Rosenfeld 2001). “At any given time I was the minister of information…minister of defense, which entailed organizing and overseeing general troop movement…would fall under the heading instructor; and combat solider” (Shakur & A K A Monster Kody Scott, 2004). This is just an example of Monster achieving his status of being an O.G. and baddest gang member