CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Symbolic Interactionism, Labeling Theory, Price Fixing
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Start with the assumption that we all have impulses. Reiss: seeing crime as a failure of personal and social controls. Gold orientation; believing in legitimate needs in achieving your goals and 4. coping skills: how do you deal with frustrations. People do not commit crime because they feel bonded to society. The criminal will be criminalized by a lack of belonging, disconnection between the individual and society will open up the door to crime. Involvement: belief: belief system of the individual, the value placed one freedom belief in authority. Self-control: people conform less because they are socially bonded they have acquired a strong self-control, criminals lack this self control. Result of socialization processes and of parenting practices. It is a concern for the long term consequences of one"s act; projecting oneself in the future, concerned by the consequences of my actions. Criminal is living in the present and not thinking in the future.