SOC205H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Travis Hirschi, Fatalism
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Various massive social change across the western world created the perfect timing for theorizing that crimes stems from the breakdown of control structures. These changes included the u. s. civil rights movement which spun off other movements such as the feminist, worker and feminist movements. This brought about consciousness on things that felt right and wrong such as war and drugs in the sense that they posed threats and ideologies that were oppressive and signaled the collapse of personal and social controls. Change in social institutions like the family, white authority and other traditional norms were seen as destructive and the reason for the rise in crime. This posed new theories about criminology based on the decrease of social control caused by the disruption of traditional norms. Targeted the importance of family as it imparts personal social control and acts as formal social control.
