What are the 4 functions of crime (functionalism)
Boundary maintenance
Adaptation and change
Safety valve
Warning light
Who is the sociologist for adaptation and change
Durkheim
Who is the sociologist for safety valve
Davis
Who is the sociologist for warning light
Cohen
What is boundary maintenance
Punishment reinforces shared norms and values by dramatising wrongdoers
Examples of boundary maintenance
2011 UK Riots clean up
Jamie Bulger murder
What is adaptation and change
All change starts with an act of deviance
Examples of adaptation and change
Martin Luther King
Clare’s law
Suffragettes
What is safety valve
Releases men’s sexual frustration
Examples of safety valve
Prostitution
Polsky - pornography
What is warning light
Crime indicates when an institution is malfunctioning
Examples of warning light
Truancy
AO3 for boundary maintenance
Ignores how crime affects victim
AO3 for adaptation and change
Marxism - RC interests protected at all costs
AO3 for safety valve
Radical Feminism - only benefits men
AO3 for warning light
Marxism - assumes norms are the wish of wider society
What two mechanisms produce social solidarity
Socialisation and social control
Why does Durkheim say crime is inevitable
Ineffective socialisation
Diversity
Anomie
Subcultures
What is anomie
Normlessness
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Crime And Deviance - Functionalism19
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Crime And Deviance - Strain Theory18
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Crime And Deviance - Subcultural Theories11
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Crime And Deviance - Marxism19
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Crime And Deviance - Neomarxism6
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Crime And Deviance - Labelling Theory20
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Crime And Deviance - Right Realism20
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Research Methods - Key Studies34
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Soc Cap12
