key theorists
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- parsons believed that a meritocratic society worked best as it gave everyone an equal chance of success e.g. if you worked hard in school your reward would be a good job
- Davis and Moore said the best jobs are given to those who worked the hardest for them
- Saunders a new right theorist argues that society needs unequal rewards because it incentivises people to work harder however he also argues that the middle class always gets the top rewards because they are naturally smarter and so work harder ( ok bro)
- laura mulvaney suggested the theory of the male gaze where media is shot through the lens of men therefore sexualising women
- Karl Marx argued that the bourgeoise own the means of production and the working class need to sell their labour in order to survive
- charles murray argues the underclass theory
- sir keith argued the cycle of deprivation
- Durkheim and Merton are functionalists
- Durkheim argues that crime is inevitable
- merton agrues strain theory + the 5 reactions to failing to achieve goals
- william chambliss is a marxist view on crime
- pollak argues the chivilary thesis
- mcrobbie argues bedroom culture
- Heidensohn argues the womans control theory
- carlen argues that women commit crimes of the powerless eg shopslifting
- charles murray is a new right theorist for crime
- A.Cohen argues status frustration - subcultural theorist
- S.Cohen argues that media amplification only encourages crime as it leads to moral panics - subcultural theorist
- a folk devil is the same as a scapegoat
- According to Lemert, by being stigmatized as 'criminals,' offenders were excluded from mainstream society and left with no alternative but to sink deeper in crime
- Gilroy theorised the myth of black criminality: black people do not commit more crimes they are just more heavily patrolled by fundamentally racist instructions such as police
- cicourel that justice was not set in stone but rather negotiable = judges may be less strict on middle class offenders
- parsons argues that women are less likely to commit crime due to biological differences and nature