SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Glasser'S Choice Theory, School Violence, Shift Work

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

Return to classical school: rational humans deterrence, punishment. Rational choice theory, routine activities theory, lifestyle theory, situational choice. Individuals make a conscious, rational and at least partially informed choices to commit crime. Do a cost-bene t analysis in decision making. Involvement decisions: choice of whether or not to get involved, continue or withdraw from offence (i. e the choice to become a burglar) Event decisions: process of undertaking crime (which bank will i burgle) Rational choices are event speci c (type of event: burglary versus murder; speci c event; rob person or let them pass); quick decisions. Crime will decrease when opportunities are limited, bene ts reduced and costs increased. Studies have demonstrated that informal factors are more important variables in cba. Internal informal factors: shame, loss of self-esteem (even if nobody else knew they committed crime) External informal factors: how friends, family, employers, would respond. Females are more in uenced by effects of shame than males.