Sociology 2267A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Informal Social Control, Interpersonal Relationship, Mark Colvin
3 Oct 2018
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Introduction: until recently, explanations of youth crime were dominated by theoretical perspectives such as strain, differential association, social control, and labelling, past two decades have seen new and more complex theoretical perspectives: The general theory of crime: self-control: outlined by michael gottfredson and travis hirschi (1990, focuses on the key concept of self-control, the ability to restrain oneself from momentary temptations. Low self-control is the result of an absence of training or ineffective or incomplete socialization. Child-rearing can be undermined in a variety of ways. Low self-control difficult to alter after ages 8-10. 1: removal of positive stimuli, presentation of negative stimuli. The emotional response to an event or condition is distinct from the type of strain experienced. Some of the possible emotions that strain might call forth include fear and depression, however the critical emotion central to the theory is anger.
