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Sep 10, 2020 · Matza presents an interesting functionalist alternative to subcultural theories where he suggests that, in fact, we all share the "delinquent" values that lead some people to criminal and deviant behaviour but that most of us, most of the time, are able to keep them suppressed. This is a learned skill, however, so we are more likely to commit crime or engage in deviant behaviour when we are ...
Feb 13, 2024 · The last element of Matza’s (2018) subcultural theory of delinquency is drift, which provides a justification for why only some people commit crimes. Matza argues that drift is a period in adolescence where an adolescent’s bonds from society are loosened, making them more susceptible to suggestions of deviant acts from their peer group.
permits the drift into delinquency. Matza acknowledges that the concept of drift bears considerable resemblance to the original meaning of anomie. Both refer to a condition of unregulated choice, but Matza prefers to use the term drift rather than anomie—partly because the latter has taken
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Apr 15, 2019 · Main proponent. David Matza . Theory: Delinquency and Drift. With his book Delinquency and Drift, published in 1964, Matza takes up the article Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency (1957) published a few years earlier [see: Neutralization Thesis (Sykes and Matza)] and renews his criticism of the then popular explanatory approaches to crime.
This review places the theory in the context of other theories in sociology as well as psychology, reviews empirical evaluations of the theory, and details what is still known and unknown about the theory. Fritsche 2005 articulates clearly many of the misunderstandings and empirical finding of the theory. Fritsche, Immo. 2005.
Drift Theory. To begin, David Matza’s (1964) Drift Theory posits that delinquency is a transitory and conditional behavior, determined not by structural factors, but rather by the situation at hand and the respective child’s mood. Drift Theory emerged as both a continuation of and as a response against existing theories of the time. To ...
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Aug 20, 2021 · Drift (Matza, 1964) and neutralization (Sykes & Matza, 1957) have contributed significantly to the criminology and sociology of deviance.Not only are these concepts capable of explaining poorly understood criminological phenomena like crime desistance and the role of cognition in delinquency, they have also been applied to a wider range of criminal, antisocial, and unethical behavior than most ...
