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The Sociology of Crime and Deviance
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... Access to Nursing and Healthcare Professions 2007 Sociology Assignment (3) Group (1) The Sociology of Crime and Deviance By: Stephen Davies For: Jane Simpson Contents Access to Nursing and Healthcare Professions 2007 1 Contents 2 Introduction 3 Theories of Crime and Deviance 4 Functionalist Theory of Crime 4 Merton's Theory of Anomie 6 Marxist Theory of Crime 8 Sub-Cultures 10 Cloward & Ohlim (Delinquency and Opportunity) 11 Social control 11 Labelling 12 Conclusion 13 References 14 Introduction This assignment contains information on the theories of crime from a sociological viewpoint. Theories in this assignment include Marxist, Functionalists, Merton's theory of anomie and so on. Crime has been in society since time began and as humans have evolved, so has crime and punishment. There are a number of reasons why criminality happens and this could be due to oppression from a capitalist system, family has a history of criminality or even to feed the family. Many years ago criminals, who were very poor targeted the rich, would often go into town or to a neighbourhood with rich homeowners. In modern day society criminals will usually














