CRIM 300W Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ritualism In The Church Of England, Anomie, Adolphe Quetelet
9 Mar 2016
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Early social structural and strain theories of crime. Class crime relationship: motivation / opportunity, direct effect, causation: class causes crime, marital need, frustration. Social structure theories branches: strain, social disorganization, cultural deviance theory, combination of 1 + 2, development of subcultures as a result to disorganization and subcultural values. Background: 1800s euro, enlightenment and age of reason, economical change. Influenced by industrial revolution a: rise of cities, industrial based economy vs agricultural new social problems, political change, british bourgeois revolution, american revolution, french revolution. Auguste comte: 1709-1857, father of sociology, distinguish between social statics and social dynamics, consensus vs conflict, positivist perspective a. social determinism vs free will and indi choice determined by social forces, limited free will i. Strain theory: frustration as a factor in criminal activity, culturally defined goals and socially approved means for obtaining them, unequal distribution of , crime is a result of cope or not cope.
