LS222 Lecture 7: LS 222 Lecture 7
20 Aug 2016
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Notes: midterm not cumulative but final is: code of the streets elijah anderson. Bridging the gap between individual theories and macro theories. Social but micro in theories: macro theories don"t provide theoretical mechanism for environmental factors etc. Major assumptions: human behaviour is flexible not fixed. Behaviour changes according to circumstances: most delinquency is commuted in group or gang context. Delinquent behaviours motivated and acquired with the same processes as anything else (language, piano, etc. ) Delinquency no different than any other behaviour. Learns how to commit the crime as well as why it is to be done: the specific direction of motives and drives is learned from definitions(attitudes) of legal codes as favourable or unfavourable. Associations that are frequent and long will have more of an impact than those that are intermittent and short (e. g. , definitions form parents will have more of an impact than someone you worked with for 3 months)
