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    Drug Addiction and Crime

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    Drug Addiction and Crime: How Does Poverty Contribute to the Two? Poverty‚ crime‚ and addiction are social elements that create social problems. According to Reiman‚ “poverty is a source of crime” (27). Poverty in America is a major problem. In the United States‚ one out of every five children grows up in poverty (Reiman‚ 86). Many factors contribute to poverty. Some examples of these factors include: financial aspects of addiction‚ exclusion‚ images of crime‚ subcultures of

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    possible for them and what is possible for others‚ and reacts to it with anger or an inflamed sense of injustice.  We should be advised that debates exist within criminology regarding relative deprivation and terrorism‚ on the one hand‚ with the anomie or strain tradition which finds causal influence in such objectivist factors as Gross Domestic Product‚ and on the other hand‚ with the left realist tradition which finds causal influence in

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    with delinquency; certainly treatment of the offender needs to be based upon an understanding of the causal mechanisms that have produced him. In this paper we’ll describe three theories of juvenile delinquency such as Social Learning Theory‚ General Strain Theory and Behavioral Theory and discuss appropriate preventive programs based upon these theories. In 1977 Albert Bandura‚ a Stanford University psychology professor‚ published Social Learning Theory‚ in which he postulated that human learning is

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    Deviance

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    The Objective/Subjective Dichotomy Objectivism: Deviance as an Act The assumption that there is something inherent in a person‚ behavior or characteristic that is necessarily deviant Statistical Rarity If a behavior or characteristic is not typical‚ it is deviant. Harm If an action causes harm‚ then it is deviant. Folkways: If you violate these norms you may be considered odd‚ rude or a troublemaker Mores: Those standards that are often seen as the foundation of morality in a culture

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    Female Juvenile Gangs

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    gangsters and to show that female gangs are a diversified group with different motives and deviant behaviour. Functionalist point of view includes Durkheim’s structural functionalism and Merton’s anomie theory. This paper will use anomie theory to explain the phenomenon of female juvenile gangs exclusively. Anomie refers to the situation of normlessness which is the inability to maintain the shared values and norms on individuals. It also means there is an acute disjunction between cultural structures

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    Assess the functionalist view of crime and deviance. [21 marks] This essay will detail the functionalist perspective of crime and deviance. Functionalist theories began to emerge after the industrial revolution in the 18th century. This period was called the enlightenment‚ and brought about scientific belief as opposed to the feudalist beliefs of religion. Religion no longer had such a powerful impact on peoples’ lives. The aim of sociological theories such as functionalism is to cure social ills

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    offenders in the St. Louis area and gaining inside knowledge of these criminals’ daily lives and their crimes. This paper will address anomie and bond theories and how it relates to the offenders in this study and the socialization of these subjects into criminality and the street culture in which they live. Conventional Goals? According to Robert Merton’s anomie theory‚ people are not born criminals; they conform to the environment in which they live. Conventional means of reaching a goal are

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    Why do people commit crime? This is relatively strong topic discussed by sociologists that believe criminal or deviant behaviors are not because of ones physical characteristic. This essay will mainly focus on the Functionalist and Conflict Theories of crime. Conflict theorist argue that deviance is deliberately chosen‚ and often political in nature‚ where as Functionalist theorist argue that deviance and crime is caused by structural tensions created by social structure. Functionalists argue that

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    Tutsi tribes. This event can be seen as a result of Robert Merton’s Anomie theory‚ or sometimes called strain theory. Merton’s theory “holds that crime increases – as do other forms of deviance – when the social structure prevents people from achieving culturally defined goals (e.g. Hutu bettering their lives) through legitimate means (e.g. an election). This gap between goals and means is called structural inequality or anomie”. (Tepperman 2010) The persisting structural gap that the Hutu were

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    Explaining Crime

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    ASSIGNMENT 2 ESSAY ________________________________ ANOMIESTRAIN‚ AND SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY: INTERPRETING CRIME Causes of crime are arguably criminology’s most important and largest research topic. In this process of research‚ criminologists and academics have used numerous theories in attempts to explain how and why people resort to crime (Ellis‚ Beaver‚ Wright‚ 2009). The purpose of this paper is to examine a case study first with the use of strain theories (ST)‚ followed by social learning theory

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