CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Nules, Edwin Sutherland, Jargon

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: James Williams

Document Summary

States that criminality is a learned activity just like everything else. Not interested in deviance as a reaction to strain. They feel that the idea of the american dream and success as a goal to some is not measurable (scientific). Interested in the sub culture, how the subculture socializes and teaches positive and negative associations. Two things that broke subcultures (why they are almost obsolete: the internet, were commodified (made into consumer goods) and sold back to young people. What remains of value is the learning aspect of the cultural transmission of definitions that allow people to justify breaking rules. Criminal subcultures still exists but have adapted to the modern world. If this culture truly wants to succeed in crime, they need to blend in. May arise out of strain or simply out of the gathering together and segregation of large numbers of young people.