PSYC 164 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: White-Collar Crime, Restorative Justice, Anomie
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Restorative justice: restore the victim, offender, and community, require the offender to take responsibility for his or her actions, accountability with support, can take the form of an apology, a conversation with the victim/victim"s family, or compensation. Levels of analysis: strain and conflict theory focus on the level of society: Institution: the structures of capitalism cause strain in individual persons and conflict between groups. Iii: anomie: normlessness or norms confusion, changing norms. Strain theory: merton: conformity, adopt goals and means. General strain theory: agnew: loss of something good, receive something bad, cannot get what they want. Conflict theory: sociological theory that analyzes crime and society"s structures and conflicts, durkheim, weber, and marx (we don"t have time to do them justice) It is from the surplus population that crime will emerge due to the deprivation aspect of capitalism. Marx: class conflict: various modes of production (feudalism, slavery, capitalism) create classes of. C. people who are in conflict over power.
