Compare and contrast the three sociological explanations of crime. Include the major premises of each.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Conflict: Crime is one way that the disadvantaged and powerless rebel against society. Also, crime is distributed among all the social classes, but arrests are most often made in lower-class neighborhoods .
2. Functionalist: When some members of the society accept the goals but do not have access to the approved means of attaining them, they may try to attain the goals by socially unacceptable means. Anomie is the feeling of being adrift that arises from the disparity between goals and means.
3. Interactionist explanations of criminal behavior focus on the processes by which individuals internalize the norms that encourage criminality. This internalization results from the everyday interaction that occurs in social groups.
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What will be an ideal response?
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