Connection Between Social Strain Theory And Anomie

The Usual Suspects
The first and most important lesson taught in criminology is that crime is not random. The common saying that a person was at “the wrong place at the wrong time” establishes a right place and a right time for someone to engage in or be victim to a criminal activity. There are certain variables that continue to emerge as associated to crime, but no one variable can be credited with directly causing crime.
These variables include economic circumstances, lack of capable guardians, socialization of an individual, social disorganization, status frustration, gender inequality, opportunity, and masculinity. Each one of these variables is important because it shows how social forces push an individual to be deviant and to engage
The feeling of disconnect and indifference due to a disagreement between a society and of the individual can lead to deviance and criminal activity. Understanding the connection between the Social Strain Theory and anomie help explain the variables that motivate people towards criminal activity or deter them away from it. These concepts help explain the concentration of crime in lower class and minority communities, as well as the generally high crime rate in American society but fail to explain violent crimes such as homicide and assault or why people choose one adaptation over the
The impoverished neighborhoods who innovate and resort to selling drugs socialize their children into their world where masculinity and respect are the only things that establish power. Single parent homes, which lack parental supervision while the mother is mostly at work, gives the adolescent the opportunity to be surrounded and learn from delinquent peers with deviant norms. The Differential Association Theory proposes that criminal behavior is learned and maintained through interaction. It occurs within close personal groups learning criminal behavior with specific motives, neutralizations, and a definition of legal codes as unfavorable. It looks at how frequent and how important the crime is to the criminal, excess of definitions favorable to crime, contemplates whether learning criminal behavior is the same as learning how to do “normal” activities, and why criminal behavior is not explained by general needs and values. If criminal behavior were to be explained by general needs and values, the question of “Why are some people more likely to commit a crime?” is more heavily weighted. It is difficult to test this theory because of the causal order; was the crime learned from peers or was it out of