CC290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Anomie, Social Forces
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Theories of crime- social structure, strain and anomie. Sociological approaches to crime causation: crime is the product of social interaction. Sociological approaches were created on modern land, being out of their element. Assumption that weights in that, changes behaviour. Focuses on how the environment affects groups and individuals: informal/ formal social institutions, types of social organization. Disadvantage to crime is being lower class. Advantages to crime is the high class doesn"t create strain. What is wrong with society that causes high crime rates. Why some societies such as usa has higher crime rather than others (page 166: institutional anomie are ideas that are developed into anomie, origins of strain theory. Classical theory argues that individuals are pressured into crime when they are denied from monetary success: society and groups of individuals are causing crime. Societal conditions are a rapid social change focused on the social study of society, moving away from demonic theory. Looking at the changing concept to industrialization.
