Excerpt from :

...... In particular, the documentary details the racist sentiments of former Los Angeles County police chief (1950-1966) William H. Parker and the degree to which the police authorities in Los Angeles contributed to the source of social tension described by Durkheim. Likewise, at the federal level, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) also devoted inappropriately intense interest in dismantling the organized gangs that originally developed mainly to provide quasi-police protection to a community where city police remained unconcerned with crime so long as it remained confined to the minority communities
Strain Theory:
Robert Merton applied Anomie concepts to develop a theory of social deviance partly derived from some of the same tensions or strains precipitated by the social and economic factors described by Durkheim a half century earlier (Gerrig & Zimbardo, 2008; Schmalleger, 2008). Specifically, Merton suggested that the long-term discrepancy between the values and achievements promoted by society and those that were actually achievable to minority and other underprivileged communities generated psychological strains that were a significant cause of social deviance and crime......

Need this essay? If it's not quite what you're looking for there are over 50,000 more to search from, so you can find the term paper or essay that meets your needs.