SOC222 Lecture 9: Lecture 9 Class Notes.docx

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC222
• Professor: Jennifer L Schulenberg

Document Summary

Interactional or integrated theories can better represent how we interact with others in certain environments. More influential integrated explanations for delinquency: thornberry s general theory of delinquency, latent trait versus life course theories, loeber s interconnected pathways, farrington s developmental theory, sampson and laub s age-graded theory, social development model of antisocial behaviour. By combining social control theories with social learning theories thornberry argues that factors effect a legal behaviour differently, depending on how old the juvenile is at the time. Delinquent behaviour should be understood as events occurring in a developmental way where some factors increase the likelihood of delinquency more at certain ages. This theory divides the theoretical explanation up into three age groups: early adolescence: 11-13 years of age, middle adolescence: 15-16 years of age, later adolescence: 18-20 years of age. Main premise of thornberry s theory: delinquency is not the final product of the social process.