CCJ 3014 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Anomie, Ritualism In The Church Of England
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We need crime in society or it. Anomie/strain results from discrepancy between societal goals and the means available to achieve those goals. Strain: anger or frustration that results from negative relationships or experiences. Crime is viewed as the responsibility / inability to live up to middle-class values. How one adapts depends upon availability of illegitimate opportunities won"t function. Conformist: accept goal and the means of getting it. Innovator: accepts goal, think about other means of getting it. Retreatist: rejects the goal and how you get there. Rebel: rejects the goals and the means and rewrites it. Regain: what one has lost or prevented from obtaining. Escape: to get away from the anger and strain. Crime viewed as the response or inability to live up to middle-class values (middle class measuring rods). Criminal: profitable crimes, techniques, education on the street, exist in stable neighborhoods, know shady cops. Retreatist: drug oriented, double failures, don"t fit in, withdrawal from society.
