CRM/LAW C108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Making Money, Anomie, Ritualism In The Church Of England

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Criminology, Law and Society
• Course: CRM/LAW C108
• Professor: Naomi Sugie

Document Summary

Innovation main idea of crime accepting the goals but not having the means. Rebellion: culture goals & institutionalized means. Emphasizes the strain or stress that people feel when they can"t achieve the cultural goal with the available legitimate means. Albert k. cohen, 1918 delinquent boys. Tried to explain origin of deviant subcultures. Culture goals: certain goals dominate, goals are shaped by the majority of the population, in the us: wealth and affluence, cohen: middle-class status. Institutionalized means: conventional ways to achieve goals (education, putting in work and time) Goal in us is not wealth but is actually becoming middle-class ; achieving middle-class status is the goal of most of the people in the us. Focusing on rebellion what these youth gangs are doing. Culture goals: wealth, gang-defined status/respect (replace the goal of middle class status with our own goal) Institutionalized means: rejection of legal means and adoption of gang codes/illegal means.