ATS1281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Juvenile Delinquency, Shoplifting, Christopher Mccandless
8 May 2018
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UNDERSTANDING CRIME: LECTURE 5
Anomie and Strain
Last Week
• Chicago school, rapid industrialisation and urbanisation
• zoal hypothesis
• Social disorganisation
Overview
• Dukhei o odeisatio ad aoie
• Meto o aoie
• Cohe o status ad suultues
• Age o geeal stai theoy GST
Emile Durkheim (1858 – 1917)
• A foudig fathe of soiology
• Influential ideas about crime:
• Crime is an inevitable feature of any society
• Crime performs an important function in any society
• Too little crime is potentially problematic
• Rapid social change leads to increased crime because of
• Weak moral integration
• Poor social regulation
Dukhei o Aoie
• Anomie as a consequence of insufficient moral regulation in periods of rapid social
change (ie. olessess
• Defied as: the ays i hih the liited aess to appoed soial goals though
legitiate eas ay lead soe to adopt illegitiate eas Neu :
Anomie and Suicide
• Durkheim studied suicide as a social phenomenon
• Considered a crime in most of Europe at the time
• Analysis of suicide rates led him to argue:
• ith ieased pospeity, desies iease…Oeeeig aitio alays
exceeds the results obtained, great as they may be, since there is no warning
to pause hee…sie this race for an unattainable goal can give no other
pleasue ut that of the ae itself…oe it is iteupted the patiipats ae
left epty haded…ho ould suh desie to lie ot e eakeed ude
suh oditios Dukhei /: uoted i Newburn 2017: 185)
Meto o Aoie
• Built o Dukheis ideas i the afteath of the Geat Depessio
• Argued that certain elements of American culture at this time were criminogenic,
specifically: material success
• i soe lage easue, oey has ee oseated as a alue i itself…[Hoee.
It is] acquired, fraudulently or institutionally, it can e used to purchase the same
goods ad seies. Meto : uoted y Neu :
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