CRIM 412 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Organized Crime, Subculture
23 Jan 2020
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A culture refers to a source of patterning human behavior: a sum of patterns of social relationships and shared meanings by which people give order, expression and value to common experiences. A sub-culture implies that there are value judgments or a social value system which is apart from the larger or central value system: ethnic, occupation, social classes, occupants of closed institutions . Activities where drug usage is the primary focus; the anomic condition leads the sufferer to reject the goal of economic success in favor of a more easily available one-simply getting high. Gang activities devoted to violence and destructive acting out as a way of gaining status. Gang activity devoted to utilitarian criminal pursuits, an adaptation that begins to approximate organized crime. Organized crime provides a queer ladder to success for disadvantaged groups who eventually leave organized crime, making way for the next wave.
