Sociology 2266A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Trait Theory, High Crime, Social Control
12 Dec 2017
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Integrated theories: new-age theorists have basically picked and chosen their favourite parts of the classics to come up with modern day theories, multifactor theories. Latent trait approach: crime and human nature, ex. More aggression = more crime: general theory of crime. Life-course theories: glue(cid:272)k"s first major group to take this on, they followed a bunch of kids around for decades, asked them a bunch of questions about both their behaviour and demographic characteristics, family characteristics (ex. And then see oh its because one parent left the home: people can change if they commit crimes based on different aspects, ex. If they meet someone who is good and fall in love with them, if they get a good job, etc. Looked at why some people commit crimes for their whole life and why some people stop: adolescent limited offenders - only do it when they"re young.
