Functionalists views on crime

• Durhiems 4 reasons for crime-

  • Boundary maintenance
  • Warning device
  • Social solidarity
  • Safety valve
• Merton's strain theory

  . When people are rejected the American dreams

  • Conformists (regular)
  • Innovators (white collar+drug dealing)
  • Ritualists (office jobs)
  • Retreatists (hippies and anarchists
• Cohens Status frustration= WC lash out at those better off than them, delinquency is a collective response to marginalization
• Subcultures= Cloward and Ohlin

  Conflict, criminal and retreatest subcultures
• Issues= Matza, young people feel shame for crimes so have mainstream values