1.There are several different sociological explanations from different perspectives: the Functionalist perspective, Labelling perspective, Sub-culture perspective and the Marxist perspective used to explain crime and deviance. 2.The main features to each perspective are described below: Functionalist Perspective Functionalists believe that crime is best analysed by looking at society as a whole and that we should not look at the individual person, and that the way society is structured explains the cause of crime. They believe …showed first 75 words of 3005 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3005 total…He showed that there was a connection between crime and the media. Weaknesses to Cohen's study include: his research results state that these teenage subcultures represented a rejection of the work ethic and they were turned off by dead end jobs but here I believe is a weakness as many of the Mods and Rockers were from middle-classed backgrounds and would not have been able to afford scooters and motorbikes if they had rejected working.