CRIM 335 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Auguste Comte, Ted Kaczynski, Medicine Man
3 Jun 2017
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Primitive mechanical societies: everyone does the same thing, a few medicine men (anomalies) Collective conscience: the degree to which individuals of a society think alike (same values, norms, etc. ) Organic societies (industrial age): distribution of labor become specified. Results in huge cultural differences, no shared norms/morals climate of anti- social behavior. Decision to take one"s own life was highly determined by external social factors. Middle/upper class = more suicides b/c of the instability of their life poor people at least are consistently poor (stability) Low suicides for: young, married, religious couples/people need to interact within the community. Suicide occurs in remote areas where no chance of communal interactions: alaska (highest juvenile suicide rates, wyoming, montana, northern nevada. All of these theories share an emphasis on the frustration as a factor in crime causation. Robert k. merton"s model = the most popular (1930"s)
