CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Control Theory, Anomie, Thomas Theorem

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 101
• Professor: Barry Cartwright

Document Summary

Durkheim was the originator of anomie theory and social control theory : biological explanations examine inherited biogenetic deficits. Psychological explanations examine individual differences in personality: sociological explanations view crime and deviance, psychologists and biologists might ask why certain individuals, sociologists might ask, sociologists would be inclined to search for the answers. The jukes: dugdale had limited schooling, dugdale observed young man. The jukes cont: dugdale went back through generations, found petty thieves, argued that entire family had criminal tendencies, most evidence . Social structure and anomie: merton"s 1938 paper on social structure and anomie, merton used term "anomie" to describe social strain, merton was saying that american society was criminogenic" The chicago school, established in 1892: chicago school thinking was shaped by the rapid growth of the city of chicago, the chicago school rejected the social darwinist notion, members of the chicago school concluded.