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  1. Sutherland was a famous criminologist.

    2. Internet Exercise: Go to the website (www.calvin.edu/academic/crijus/courses/suth1.htm) and summarize his theories on crime causation, along with providing some background on him.

  2. The "Strain Theory" is outlined in your chapter.

    3. Internet Exercise: Go to the website (www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk/curric/soc/crime/mert_str.htm) and research where this theory originated, list its strong points, and its weak points towards crime and its causation.

  3. The following web site provides a brief, but insightful, survey of structural strain theories: (www.umsl.edu/~rkeel/200/strain.html)

    1. What are the major "branches" of structural strain theory?
    2. Make a list of the major assumptions of strain and cultural deviance theories.

  4. The following web site provides some very interesting historical background concerning Robert Merton's strain (or anomie) theory of crime: (www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/merton.htm)

    1. What features of Robert Merton's personal history might have motivated him to expand on Emile Durkheim's original anomie theory?
    2. Based on what you have learned from reading Margaret Evans' essay, summarize Merton's structural strain theory.





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