CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Disorganization Theory, Differential Association, Anomie
27 Feb 2018
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Two laws of penal evolution" (1901: merton and other strain theories, robert k. merton. Social structure and anomie": critiques of american culture. Retreatism: cloward and ohlin"s, delinquency and opportunity (1960, relative deprivation, differential opportunity structure, president johnson"s war on poverty . A revised strain theory of delinquency" (1985: why do criminal offend (2005, strain: incapacity to achieve internalized cultural goals + losing something valid + negative treatment by others. Individualizing: psychosocial then biosocial (temperament, intelligence, heritable traits, etc) Society organized for crime : the chicago school, park and burgess" introduction to the science of sociology (1921, society is an organization of control. Sutherland"s differential association: crime is learned from others, a person becomes delinquent because of an excess of definitions favorable to violation of law over definitions unfavorable to violation of law. This is the principle of differential association: subcultural theories.
