SOCI 2450 Chapter 8: Chapter 8.doc

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 2450
• Professor: Jim Davies

Document Summary

This approach stresses the role of interpersonal relationships, the strength of the social bond, and the personal and group consequences of societal reactions to deviance as they contribute to crime: crime is the product of class struggle. This perspective emphasizes the nature of the existing power relationships between social groups, the ownership of the means of production, and the economic and social structure of society as it relates to social class and social control. Major principles of the social structure perspective: social structure theories explain crime by reference to various aspects of the social fabric. Types of social structure theories: three major types of social structure theories: ecological theory, strain theory and culture conflict theory. They were seen as the most crime prone: type iv youths were described as dropouts who retreated from the cultural mainstream drug and alcohol use.