SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Learning Theory, Corporal Punishment, Parental Controls

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Demons, evil spirits: thought people who engaged with criminal behaviour. Magna carta foundation of modern laws & procedures; foundation of civil liberties around world. Hobbes & locke (philosophers: tabula rasa humans are blank slates. Everything around us pushes/pulls us to particular directions: nurture most influential than nature in personality formation. Way we are taught, raised, values, morals and upbringing had greater affect than genetic material: free will and rational thought prevalent (people are self-determining) Cesare beccaria & jeremy bentham: most prominent theorists, started to talk about how we treat criminals. Punishment should be deterrence rather than retribution; crime prevention > revenge. Three components: general consequence directed at individual but designed to dissuade society. Fear keeps from engagement: specific designed to prevent individual from re-offending, celerity speed (closer to act, better the result) Cjs: court systems, there is a lot of time between action/crime and sentencing. No proof that death penalty deters especially when looking at homicide rates.

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