Discuss the criticisms of cultural theories of crime.
What will be an ideal response?
The studies on cultural theories of crime, at least in the United States, show that no large groups blatantly deny the middle-class norms of society. Specifically, Miller’s model of lower-class focal concerns simply does not exist across the entire lower class. Studies consistently show that most adults in the lower class attempt to socialize their children to believe in conventional values, such as respect for authority, hard work as positive, delayed gratification, and so forth, and not the focal concerns that Miller specified in his model. So there are likely small groups or gangs that have subcultural normative values, but that does not constitute a completely separate culture in society. Therefore, it can be concluded that if there are subcultural groups in our society, they seem to make up a small percentage of the population, which somewhat negates the cultural/subcultural perspective of criminality.
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