SOCL 3371 Chapter : Socl 3371 NEW Notes
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Positive school, the approach from a scientific side. Larger social structures such as environment and institutions such as: schools, peer groups, family. Help explain criminal behavior beyond biological and psychological. Emile durkheim: influenced robert merton"s theory of strain with concept of anomie, anomie refers to a sense of normalness that a societies experience as a result of a breakdown in the social cohesion of society. Focuses on stress and frustration as a cause of criminality. Criminal behavior is learned in interaction with other persons in a process of communication: 3. The principal part of the learning of criminal behavior occurs within intimate personal groups: 4. When criminal behavior is learned, the learning includes (a) techniques of committing the crime, which are sometimes very complicated, sometimes simple; (b) the specific direction of motives, drives, rationalizations, and attitudes: 5. The specific direction of motives and drives is learned from definitions of the legal codes as favorable or unfavorable: 6.
