CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Deinstitutionalisation, Corporate Crime, Juvenile Delinquency
9 Mar 2016
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Talcott parsons: started concept of structural functionalism", pre-eminent sociological paradigm during 1940s-1950s. Merton"s anomie and deviant behaviour if society is functional, then why do we have problems like social unrest. 1: distance himself from freudian/ psychological explanations. Anomie": describe dysfunction between/ malintegration of culture and social structure: manifest: i. ii. iii. those that society intends often set out as formal institutional goals. Cjs: punish criminals so that they and others will obey the laws. 2. rehabilitate and reintegrate offenders, so they can again become functional members of society: latent functions: i. ii. iii. those that society does not intend informal and may have undesirable outcomes (latent dysfunctions) Cjs: providing its satisfied customers with a training ground for future criminal activity. Differential opportunity theory rooted in merton"s strain theory, differential association and chicago school: cloward and ohlin. 2: cloward: merton"s student at columbia, ohlin: sutherland"s student in u of chicago.
