CJ511 - Nature of Crime

Module 3 - Deterrence and Opportunity

Readings

• Winfree and Abadinsky - Chapter 2
• Online Reserves

Discussion Topics

	Do criminals "choose" their crimes?
	Can "costs" be increased so this "choice" will not be made?
	Do some settings "invite" crime?

Module Links

Crime and Opportunity

Differential Opportunity and Delinquent Subcultures

Cloward and Ohlin

http://www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk/curric/soc/crime/diff_opp.htm

http://mulerider.saumag.edu/~milford/crime/dif-opor.html

Criminal, conflict and retreatest subcultures

Illegitimate Means and Delinquent Subcultures, Cloward and Ohlin (Pontell)

Purpose of social norms is implicit

Access to illegitimate forms of acquiring goods is differentially distributed.

Cultural Transmission Theory  

Women, Crime and Opportunity 

Freda Adler

http://www.d.umn.edu/~jhamlin1/adler.html

Changing the Opportunity Structure: Public Policy Initiatives  

http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/guides/political_history/lbj/poverty2.htm