CRIM 2311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Marginalism, Domestic Violence, Devaluation
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Anomie (robert merton initially developed the theory of anomie) Attempts to explain why some societies have higher crime rates than others. Societies that fail to adequately regulate goal seeking behavior are said to be characterized by a state of anomie: normlessness. Conformity: conformity to both cultural goals and means. Individuals are in the society but not a part of it. Innovation: will occur with inadequate socialization whereby the conflict and frustration are eliminated by relinquishing the institutional means and retaining the success-aspiration. Ritualism: the goal is dropped as beyond one"s reach but conformity to the mores persists. Rebellion: occurs when emancipation from the reining standards, due to frustration or marginalist perspectives, leads to the attempt to introduce a "new social order" Focused on lower class crime and left out middle-class (white collar crime) Equal out structural provisions of anomie: provide greater access to the means. Crime and the american dream: institutional anomie theory (messner and.
