CRM 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: List Of Countries By Intentional Homicide Rate, Ms-13, Unaccompanied Minors
Document Summary
They retained the notion of determinism and difference (positivism) They retained the sociological focus on situations. They attempted to go beyond merton and sutherland and shaw & mckay. From shaw and mckay special variation: cloward and ohlin locate gangs in certain urban areas. From sutherland association and interaction: cloward and ohlin apply association to subcultural interaction, try to have a sense of the cumulative effect of all interactions across gangs. Delinquent behaviours within subculture context of gangs. Urban areas among adolescent males in lower class areas. Adjustment problem is driving people away from the consensus = strain. Satisfying the need that young people are trying to overcome by joining a gang allow them to address the problem. Range of opportunities for illegitimate solutions depends on economic position, age, gender, ethnicity, personality. Depends if the collective solution continues to solve the adjustment problem (recruitment and success of integration)
