SOC 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Public Safety Canada, Juvenile Delinquency, Resistance Theory In The Early Modern Period

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3710
• Professor: Bill O' Grady

Document Summary

Soc 3710 family, school, peers and youth crime. Microscopic perspective focuses on individuals and behavior in small social settings research often focuses on family structure (ex. Nuclear vs. single parent) recent research has identified up to 9 different family structures. Family structure: broken homes hypothesis: children from divorced and single parent families are more likely to become youth offenders. Parenting styles and family dynamics are more important explanations of research does not support this hypothesis delinquency. Parenting styles: baumrind (1991): two most important components of parenting, parental responsiveness, parental demandingness. Family attachment: positive emotional attachments between parent and child reduce delinquency, strong associations between negative parental behaviour and delinquency relationship between attachment and delinquency is cyclical. Co(cid:374)se(cid:395)ue(cid:374)(cid:272)es of (cid:862)(cid:271)ad(cid:863) fa(cid:373)ily (cid:396)elatio(cid:374)ships: greater likelihood of: Aggression, emotional disorders, property crime, substance abuse, running away children who witness or experience violence are more likely to engage in violent offending: generational issues.