CRCJ 1000 Lecture 10: CRCJ1000 Week 10 - conflict and strain theories

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Monaghan

Document Summary

Chapter 10 and 11: strain theories and conflict theories. Week 10 crim: durkheim and anomie, merton and strain, agnew and general strain. Illegitimate opportunity structures: group conflict, quinney social reality of crime, marxism. Grounded in sociology theories and methods, borrows from economics, political sciences, geography, stats and math, as well as social psychology. Sociology explanations view crime and deviance as normal, or semi-normal as socially culturally learned responses to social circumstances. Law is an indicator of the type of society: organic solidarity, anomie theory, not only normal, but necessary to hold society together, basis for consensus theory, basis for many sociological approaches to crm. Law/crime reacts to socially identified points of concerns and deviance. Durkheim offers four central points on the functions of crime in society: deeming of acceptable and unacceptable, social solidarity for law-abiding public, serves as an indicator of social health.