CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Disorganization Theory, White-Collar Crime, Differential Association
26 Feb 2016
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Turns the question of crime causation (why do we commit crime?) We are all self-seeking and capable of committing crime. We obey law only because we are constrained into conformity. Society"s problem is to control us and to prevent a war of all against all . 1: two main kinds of control, outer control: other people you socialize with b. Inner control: good self-concept, goal directedness, realistic objectiveness, tolerance of frustration. Involvement (being busy c: belief (sense of legal system) a sense of legal system is just. Contraculture : the contraculture stresses non utilitarian, malicious, and negativistic values, focus on male, working class youth and assumes a propensity for violence; focus on public forms of violence; middle-class crime. Sutherland: a founding father of criminology, drew attention to white collar" crime. 3: from the book principles of criminology: any person can be trained to adopt and follow any.
