CRIM 101 Lecture : Chapter 8 crim 101 notes

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 101
• Professor: Jay H

Document Summary

The family and the household: enduring pattern of social relationships, organizing domestic life, household= setting. Social organization: coherence and continuity in social environment, canadian families are quite varied. Family violence: child abuse, spousal assault, elder abuse, other forms of physical coercion that are contextualized by domestic living arrangements. Family life provides social setting for constant conflict. Family life= private life: cultural attitudes toward family violence are highly ambivalent, hierarchical institution. > against adolescent children(problematic, disturbance, talk back) rather than younger ones (adolescent much more likely to report then younger kids) Family violence is repetitive and cyclical nature: occurs when: > intimate terrorism (violence is tactic for control) > psychological violence (putting someone down, manipulation most of the time, insulting them) > grow up to feel that if they were abused when they were young, they will be abused at older age: physical violence against children risk they will behave in violent or other criminal ways.