CRM 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Juvenile Delinquency, Differential Association, Anomie

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2301
• Professor: Christine Gervais

Document Summary

Heritage: merton noted that crime was not necessarily an intrinsic part of a person and he rejected individualistic view of pathology. List of major points (quick review only: most members of society share a common system of values, this common value system teaches us both the things we should strive for (cultural goals) and. 4. the most appropriate ways (societal means) to achieve those goals. If the goals and the means are not equally stressed, an anomic condition is created. In a disorganized society, different degrees of access to these goals and means exits. Thus, the means are not equally distributed within a disorganised society: some societies such as that of the united states, may place too much stress on success goals. In a disorganised society, this results in a striving towards those goals but not enough to access to the means to achieve them: without reasonable access to the socially approved means.