SOC 3710 Lecture Notes - Parenting, Parenting Styles, Cif
14 Jul 2014
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Theories of youth crime: casual theories answer the question why (cid:224) what factors predict youthful offending (first three subheading fall into this category theory) Grew out of robert merton"s theory of anomie. Agnew uses the word strain instead of anomie. Supports merton in the sense that he believes that strain is caused by wanting. A lot of strain that young people experience is not just economic strain, it extends things you can"t have to family, school and peers. Strains: when you cant achieve positive goals (cid:224) ex. Someone takes your girlfriend or property; that removal causes frustration and aggression: when people threaten you with negative stuff; threatening to impart negative sorts of things on a person (cid:224) ex. If you don"t do this, then we will do this to you (i. e. bullying) These strains can occur in conjunction with one another: an accumulative issue; it"s the added effects of these strains that lead to frustration and subsequently, aggression.
