CRJS 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mark Colvin, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Peer Pressure
25 Dec 2017
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Present within the individual: rational choice, biological, psychological. Present outside the individual: sociological, family, peers, neighborhood/community. Ideology: humans are rational thinking actors who way costs and benefits of committing a crime. Increase the costs of committing a crime and the benefits from crime will decrease. Classical school of thought cesare beccaria. Ex. wants to buy something, doesn"t want to work minimum wage to save up. The usa has highest incarceration rate, and still. Application to youth getting caught: can explain some crime committed by certain youth, but does not explain all youth crime, youth are not fully accountable as adults because they do not have the same cognitive thinking. Biological defects: fasd, fas, fae: fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (fasd, depends on intensity and frequency of the mother drinking, this is why it is called spectrum disorder it can range from less severe to very severe. Some theorists believe nutritional intake has an impact on crime.
