Evelyn Perez
CRJ 102
Professor Margaryan
04/16/2024
Strain Theory
Anna Sokorin is Russian and she immigrated with her family to Germany. Anna didn’t have it all she was from a middle-class family. Her dream was to be something of herself, New York was the place for her, and for her to rise she manipulated the rich to get what she wanted. The theory that relates to this case is Strain theory it has five adaptations to strain conformity, ritualism, innovation, retreatism, and rebellion. Strain theory is when people think they have less and deserve more. In this case, innovation was part of the “crime” innovation the application of illegitimate means to the achievement of socially approved and legitimate ends. In Chapter 3: Anomie. In Tierney, John. Key Perspectives in Criminology, McGraw-Hill Education, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central, states “In addition, and to make matters worse, there is an unequal distribution of chips when the game begins, giving some players a powerful advantage”. This means it will take whatever to achieve or get what’s done. Innovators will cheat their way and manipulate the game and that’s their powerful advantage. It’s a desire to have the American dream and it can come off to someone benign and selfish. Also, it states “he alternative situation, that is, one where people subjectively feel that they have less than they deserve is referred to as ‘relative deprivation” In strain theory there is conformity and these people just adapt to what they have and accept it. For innovation, they don’t like the idea and try something else to get out of that norm. Anna Sokorin did have a dream of hers and unfortunately, it caught up and didn’t succeed.
Work Cited
Chapter 3: Anomie. In Tierney, John. Key Perspectives in Criminology, McGraw-Hill Education, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bmcc/detail.action?docID= 480635
