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What do functionalists argue are the positive functions of crime?
Boundary maintenance
Adaptation & change
(Durkheim)
Why does Durkheim argue that crime is inevitable?
Not everyone is effectively socialised into the shared norms & values.
Particularly in complex modern societies, there's a diversity of lifestyles & values, different groups develop their own subcultures with distinctive norms & values
Give 2 other functions of crime according to functionalists
A warning that an institution isn't functioning properly (Cohen)
Pornography safely 'channels' a variety of sexual desires away from alternatives such as adultery (Polsky)
The true function of agencies of social control such as the police may actually be to sustain a certain level of crime rather than to rid society of it (Erikson)
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