SOC205H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Parenting, Juvenile Delinquency, Fallacy
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Family is most important social control factor. Indirect control: extent of affection to authority figures, serve to keep the person in line. = family is where child accept norms + acceptance of social control (if a family fails to meet the (cid:272)hild(cid:859)s (cid:374)eeds = la(cid:449)-breaking. Believe the difference between delinquency + non-delinquent behaviours. Asserted most delinquent eventually opt out as they grow older. Basic code of morality: young adults deviate by using neutralization: temporarily suspend the norms by developing attitudes favor to criminal behaviour, justification + rationalization that promote law-breaking to take place. I did it for someone else: offender sacrifice to the larger society for a smaller social group, eg) police lie for police subculture. Delinquency arises when social bonds are weak or absent. Social bonds are the social controls that regulate when crime occurs. Did not believe individuals socialize into crime (like other theory)
