CRM 1300 Lecture 8: CRM 1300 - Lecture 8_

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1300
• Professor: Michael Kempa

Document Summary

Know main points of each theory and the main person who. Moves us into the domain of sociological accounts of crime. Strain theories can be variously consensual versus conflictual into their orientation towards society. Mostly consensual but some move toward conflictual in that they say there are a lot of problems in society but we can work within the current institutions to fix it. Strain theories have had very different meanings over time. 2 main different types of strain theory (older macro, newer micro) Division of labor in society (1893): as societies modernize, shared norms break down leading to a condition of anomie (normlessness) Anomie occurs in periods of rapid social change (ex: industrial revolution) From farming cities, those who move from the farm to the city will experience collective anomie and chaos as they are no longer guided by expectations of behaviour and deviance increases. There is a balance between functional and dysfunctional aspects of deviance.