CCJ 4934 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Computer Security, Script Kiddie, Cybercrime

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Sociology, Criminology and Law - Criminology
• Course: CCJ 4934
• Professor: Chris L Gibson

Document Summary

Focused on the relationship between socialization and crime: peer group relations family relations and failure in school on crime, best example is hacking and hacker culture. Most common is learning theory: commit crime because they learn the attitudes, skills and rationalizations needed to commit these acts o. Learning takes place in interactions with parents and peers. Differential association (differentially associate with people and groups; some we like to associate with, some people we like to ) is earliest example: does note explain how criminal behavior is learned. 2. criminal behavior learned in interaction with other persons in a process of communication. 3. intimate personal groups is principal part of learning. **person becomes delinquent because of an excess of definitions favorable to violation of law over definitions unfavorable to violation of the law (eg cops are protectors vs pigs: people we associate with teach us these definitions. 4 principle conditions: differential associations, definitions, differential reinforcement.