CRM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Stereotype, Peer Pressure, Dysfunctional Family
19 Oct 2016
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Causes of crime: effects of alienation, experienced strain and social learning, determined by societal factors. Responses: provide opportunities to reduce strain, punishment (prisons) as individual rehabilitation. Beliefs and modes of behaviour are instituted by collectives. What motivates actions: the determining cause of a social fact must be sought the antecedent social facts and not among the states of the individual consciousness . Not necessary free will and rational choice but determined by power and coercion and by reason to control behaviour. Socialization norms beliefs and values create collective consciousness. Social interaction is the key to through which society operates. Crime is bound up with the fundamental conditions of all social life . Social contract operates through consensus making but not all people feel part of these shared norms . Crime is the breakdown of integration in society. Crime occurs when individuals feel they are left out or alienated.
