blue collar crime

• functionalism

  • crime is inevitable
• merton

  • strain theory
  • 'american dream'
• subcultural theories
• cohen

  • status frustration
• cloward + ohlin

  • wc denied opportunity
• neo marxism
• cohen

  • resistance to decline in wc community
  • eg skinheads
• hall

  • moral panic of black muggers
• interactionism .
• becker

  • labelling
  • master status
  • deviancy amplification
• ciciourel

  • negotiation of justice
  • police definitions + stereotypes
• right realism

  • crime is a choice
• murray

  • underclass
  • single parents
• left realism

  • relative deprivation
• young

  • marginalisation
  • increased inequality