ATS1281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Short Turn, Differential Association, Positivism
7 Aug 2018
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A person becomes delinquent because of an excess of definitions favourable to violation of law over definitions unfavourable to violation of law - socialised into deviant behaviour/ conformist behaviour. The learning of criminal behaviour occurs within intimate personal groups". Why these groups adopt unfavourable definitions of the law. How or why individuals come to associate with particular groups. How or why these individuals are compelled to reject or abandon law abiding values/ behaviours. Culture: the sum of everything which a community invests into its members: sitting under its umbrella are knowledge, beliefs, morals, law, habits, expected standards of behaviour, all forms of art, and customs. Subculture: division of the broader culture with some of its own values, customs and expectations to which individuals feel committed and which influences the way in which they think and behave (albert cohen- culture within cultures). They begin to function under the behaviour of subculture whilst also.
