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... Others blame the influence of single mothers or peer groups for an explanation however,
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... incidences, forms, as well as the structures within society that are in place to
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Crime and Deviance. Emile Durkheim, a French psychologist writes in the latter part
of the eighteenth century and early part of the nineteenth century. ...
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Emile Durkheim, a French psychologist writes in the latter part of the eighteenth century and early part of the nineteenth century. He undertakes a functionalist/ structural perspective when applying theory to understand the world; he views society as a system of interrelated parts with widespread consensus about core values and suitable forms of behaviour – if something exists then it must have a function and a purpose to society.
In Durkheim’s work ‘The Division of Labour (1964)’ he argued that in rural farming societies people generally tend to be involved in similar activities so the division of labour is therefore minimal. This results in people developing similar ideas, goals, hobbies a, interests and values; they share a ‘collective conscience’ This collective conscience produces ‘mechanical solidarity’ which is what Durkheim suggests is the social force holding these agricultural societies together. Industrialisation and urbanisation weaken the collective conscience as they promote a more specialised division of labour. Because people have different social positions and roles/ statuses they will each hold different thoughts, ideas, goals, hobbies and interests. This results in mechanical solidarity disappearing. Durkheim argues that as the division of labour becomes more and more specialised people become dependent on one and other for their basic needs. He calls this social bond ‘organic solidarity’. We can relate this to the human body; each organ is needed to function in order to support the other, just as society is interdependent on each other.
Durkheim suggests that there are two crucial elements in understanding crime, at first these appear to be slightly contradictory. First, he suggests that a limited amount of crime is necessary and beneficial to society as crime could not exist without some form of deviance taking place. He suggests that patterns of norm violations e.g. rape and kidnapping...
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