PSYC39H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Learning Theory, Trait Theory, Intimate Relationship
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Lect 3 juvenile delinquency juvi property crime is going down significantly. Youth court has gone down by 17-18% 14,000 ppl incarcerated by the prison system: pretty good. Major issue through that all of these theories attempt to account for is the relationship between: why criminal behaviour is initiated, why some criminals (cid:498)desist(cid:499) from criminal behaviours and why others don"t. Desistance can be conceptualized as: reduction in criminal activity over time, specialization of crime over time, elimination of criminal behaviour over time. (ie. after 18, there is no crime) Different theories focus on the roles of: B) social bonds (does social bonds w fam change ppls criminal beh/desistance?) C) salient events (ie. does marriage change ppls criminal beh/desistance?) Moffitt"s developmental theory: type 1: adolescence-limited offenders (alo)(majority) Begin offending during adolescence and stop around age 18: mature out of it w/o intervention. The frequency and violence level may be as high as that of the. Lcp youth: moffitt"s developmental theory: type 2:
