CJC 201 ch9 SHORTENED

Anomie

Mismatch of expectations and means. Lowers controls increases crime

Merton says

Crime is result of social structure with high expectations

Deviance theory states

Anomie and goal mismatch lead to strain

The modes of adaptation

Conformity, innovator, Ritualism, Retreatism, rebel

Conformity

Sticking at a job for hopeful promotion

Ritualism

Sticking at a job to pay bills

What are the different subcultures according to Cloward and Ohlin

Criminal, conflict, Retreatism

What does Miller believe

Lower class operates under focal concerns

What’s institutional anomie theory

Social and cultural factors effect crime trends

Institutional anomie theory founders

Messner and Rosenfeld

What are the value orientations that are conductive to higher crime

Achievement, individualism, universalism, fetishism

General strain theory founder

Agnew

What are the 3 major types of general strain theory

Inability to reach goals, less good stimuli, more bad

What are the ways strains can be experienced

Directly, vicariously, anticipated

What increases criminal coping

Individual/social factors