SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Suicidal Ideation, Antisocial Personality Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Ryan Broll

Document Summary

Explaining crime: general theories and the life course perspective. Crime and deviance are the result of low self-control (more self-centered, impulsive, lack perseverance, engage is risking taking behavior) Quality of parenting during childhood influences people"s degree of self-control (leant very early in life) Criminogenic influences have the greatest impact early in life. Criminal behavior follows predictable patterns over the life course. Life course research relies on longitudinal research designs. Observe a collection of people at one point in time. Gives us a snapshot in time (like taking a picture in time) Example: giving a survey and not asking the same question again. Follows the same group of people over time. Talk about causation (does neglectful parenting lead to low self-control which will lead to criminal acts) Associated with poor academic, social, and health outcomes in adolescence. Copeland et al. (2013) followed 1,420 children and their parents for 20 years beginning at age 9.