Integrated Strain Theory
Definition
Cloward and Ohlin's own label for their model, reflecting how it welds together Merton's strain theory, Sutherland's differential association, and Shaw and McKay's social disorganisation theory.
Related terms
- Cloward and Ohlin
- Richard Cloward and Lloyd Ohlin, who set out differential opportunity theory in their 1960 book Delinquency and Opportunity: A Theory of Delinquent...
- Conflict Subculture
- A delinquent subculture that forms where neither legitimate nor stable illegitimate opportunity exists, producing gang violence as a substitute route to status...
- Criminal Subculture
- A delinquent subculture that forms where a stable illegitimate opportunity structure exists, channelling youth into organised, income-generating crime such as theft rings...
- Differential Opportunity
- Cloward and Ohlin's extension of Merton's strain theory: the type of criminal adaptation that people choose depends not only on blocked legitimate...
- Illegitimate Means
- The second variable Cloward and Ohlin added to strain theory: the local supply of an organised illegal route to success, such as...
- Retreatist Subculture
- A delinquent subculture built around drug use and withdrawal, made up of double failures who cannot succeed through legitimate means or gain...