CRM 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Moral Panic, Social Disorganization Theory, Differential Association

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2301
• Professor: Christine Gervais

Document Summary

Social disorganization deviance = result of community disorganization - people"s li(cid:448)es are effe(cid:272)ted. Differential association deviance = learned in association with other deviants learning perspective. Structural perspectives deviance = strain between legitimate means economic effects. Subcultural perspectives: attempt to move beyond inadequacies of previous theories. History context: chicago school, functionalism, anomie and differential association = inadequate explanations and solutions to crime post- wwii, problem = big city adolescent groups looking at age, the way the young people are organized. = ideological construct adult faced idea, the problem was blamed on the younger. = embodiment of all that is wrong in society - = carrier of all evil, immorality and social disorder. Ha(cid:449) a(cid:374)d m(cid:272)kay"s so(cid:272)ial disorga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374: subcultural theories = change of focus. But viewing subcultures as a solution to dilemmas. Albert cohen (delinquent boys 1955: 1st attempt to explain delinquent subcultures (young, values of subcultures differ from those of mainstream culture.