CRIM 300W Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cognitive Dissonance, Restorative Justice, Social Capital
9 Mar 2016
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Social process: social learning theories, control theories, labelling theories. Family relations: parenting factors love and support vs neglect and abuse fare decline strain and positive role models vs inconsistent discipline, esp between 4-9 years old b. c, parental deviance: drugs, mental impairment. 2: broken home, associated risk factors: income, place of living, time c, cycle of violence. Intact vs disrupted family family conflict is more detrimental than family structure. Peers: peers groups powerful psyc effect on human behaviour, esp between age 8-14, obsee and different in other ways children are often bullied, peer approval: maj effect on socialization, +ve/-ve. Social learning theories: crime is learned behaviour, ppl are born good and learned to be bad. Social learning: strengths, explain criminality across class structures i. including white collar crime, limitation, don"t explain spontaneous acts of violence and other expressive crimes with little utility/ purpose. 2: +ve and -ve reinforcement if they learn, they can unlearn.
