Social Strain Theory Summary

After reading through the class materials, social structure theories focus on the why question for the different classes that most likely causes a criminal act. “[S]ocial structure theories focused on why lower-class individuals are more likely to commit crime than middle-and upper-class” (Taylor, 2015). However, social structure theories started to shift not only lower-class people but start to explain criminal behavior with all social classes, which according to the book it states it as the “general strain theory” (Taylor, 2015). The major strain theory from the book focuses on Robert Merton’s strain theory, which he believes that the reason people commit a crime can be due to the inability to access education and getting a good job which

Without getting too much detail of individual modes of adaptation, cyber-stalking and harassment could be part of the mixture between conformity, and innovation. Even though the class book believes that conformity is highly unlikely to commit criminal acts but what if the means to be obtained in the society had rapidly changed which cyber stalking, cyber harassment, cyber bullying are all not of a big deal in the society? Digital crime happens every single second, and there is no way that people will seek legal justice for every cyber crime. According to the article Cyberbullying/Bullying Statistics, there are 52% of teens who do not tell their parents when cyber bullying occurs (2017). Cyber Bullying also include with cyber stalking and cyber harassment. To get into the detail of what consider as stalking and harassment, according to the article Cyber Stalking and Cyber Harassment, “The physical act in stalking can include the giving, sending, transmitting or publishing of offensive material via phone and web technology, or any other acts that could reasonably be expected to arouse the other person’s apprehension or fear”