- Certain communities value honor above all, in that simply an insult can result in violence as the simplest show of weakness can majorly discredit a person

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- Violence/crime emerges when societies with different values meet one another and  conflict manifests because of the differnce in values
- 2 types of conflict: Primary and Secondary

Culture Conflict Theory

Schmalleger, F. (2014). Criminology (The Justice Series). Criminology (2nd ed.). Pearson. https://archive.org/details/criminology0000schm. 

Criminology (The Justice Series)

- Subculture- socialization of values, cultures with their own values and traditions but not the dominant culure
- Many cultures co-exist in society but sometimes when subculutres meet each other they come into conflict when their values clash
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Subcultural Theory

- Fundamental issues
- Ex. In the 1800s an immigrant woman dishonors her family by trying to get educated when her parents believe a womens place in the hoem 

Primary Conflict

- Smaller cultures conflict with the primary one
- Ex. Using Drugs v not

Secondary Conflict

- Gresham Sykes and David Matza created the Techniques of neutralization which is that criminals understand their actions are wrong but they rationalize it with the below techniques:
   - Denying Responsibility
   - Denying Injury
   - Denying the Victim
   - Condemning the Condemners
   - Appealing to higher loyalities 

Techniques of Neutralization

- Cloward and Ohlin Theory
- Legitiamte and Illigitamate opporutnities for success

Differential Opportunity

- Created by Albert Cohen
- People reject what they want but cannot achieve
- Achievement set by the "Middle class measuring rod", and do not have the socilaization to meet this status, become frustrated and turn to delinquency

Reaction Formation

Culture of Honor

Conflict can happen at any level of social unit:
- Role conflicts
- Competition
- Class conflicts
- Minority conflict and deviation
- Proportion struggle
- International relations


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