Crime And Deviance Case Study

Crim 2331 Term paper:
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
100258094
Anmol Singh Kalra

Throughout this course multiple different sociological theories have been used to explain crime and deviance. The different theories and schools try to illuminate social factors that influence defiance. The range of crimes or delinquent behaviour these theories try to describe range from small petty thefts to sever violent criminal behaviour. Crime and deviance is a complex problem, and stems from multiple different factors, sociological theories contribute different concepts that make generalized assumptions about root causes of deviance. Just like lifestyle philosophies not aspect of a theory applies to every case and more than one theory can explain certain criminal tendencies. Although, Many of these theories can contribute to explain deviant behaviour or tendencies however in the case of Bob, the Social Learning theory and Institutional Anomie Theory do their best to explain his criminal tendencies and

In the scenario Bob himself said he wanted to stop his illegal activity while back but the expectations of unreal results from his colleagues and customers pressured him to continue with his delinquent acts. A 2006 study on white-collar crime and Institutional Anomie theory done by Andrew Schoepfer and N. Puquero state that, the American society romanticizes risk takers and people who achieve the success dream by exploiting the system. We can assume that there was encouragement, and even pressure to keep up the good work. In business and financial institutions the race to get to the top is ferocious, people are encouraged take whatever steps they can take to get ahead; we can see Bob as an textbook figure in this competition because he reached successful posts like chairman of a prestigious