CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Control Theory, Prosocial Behavior, Counterculture

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 104
• Professor: Adrienne Peters

Document Summary

Social control: mechanisms to ensure conformity to norms. Informal: actions that indicate that behavior is acceptable or unacceptable: formal: rules specified in laws and statues. Internal: process of internalizing and accepting norms of society. E. g. guilt: external: rewards and punishments used to induce conformity. Assume deviance is to be expected (ask why people don"t) (cid:862)(cid:396)ules a(cid:396)e (cid:373)ea(cid:374)t to (cid:271)e (cid:271)(cid:396)oke(cid:374)(cid:863) Emphasize socialization teaching the correct way to behave. Recall: crime is functional: defines moral boundaries in society. Identification of rule-breakers creates a bond among others. Link to social control: reactions to deviance help us identify how to behave and thus controls us, du(cid:396)khei(cid:373)"s a(cid:374)o(cid:373)ie is (cid:396)elated to so(cid:272)ial (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)ol (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it is (cid:272)aused (cid:271)y a (cid:271)(cid:396)eakdo(cid:449)(cid:374) of (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)ol mechanisms. The building blocks of social control theories: reiss (1951) Delinquency results from any of the following: failure to develop internal controls in childhood, breakdown of internal controls, absence of social rules provided by important social groups.