Robert Merton’s ideas on crime and deviance make use of the concept of anomie. What does anomie mean in Merton’s work?Criminology (a) normlessness (b) meaninglessness (c) social strain (d) social adaptation
The perspective holds that crime is a manifestation of underlying social problems like poverty, discrimination, and inequality of opportunity.
The process of affects crime causation by providing the interpretive foundation used to define and understand the significance of particular situations in which we find ourselves.
