CC210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sociometric Status, Impulsivity, Conduct Disorder
Document Summary
Coercion theory (gerald patterson: the idea that early onset criminal and violent behaviour de pelops out of a family environment characterized by coercive and ineffective parent-child interactions. Coercive interactions: a pattern of dynamic parent-child interactions wherein aversive behaviours of individual elicit equally aversive responses from others in an escalation of dysfunctional behaviours. Temper tantrums: lack of effective management and negative reinforcement, antisocial conduct becomes functional. Poor parental management: key causal factor of delinquency, difficulty in being a good parent, concentration of difficulties experienced by some parents, inept in socializing their children. Cumulative disadvantage: early developmental and socio-economic difficulties that create subsequent developmental problems for individuals over the life-course. Life-course persistent (lcp) pathway: antisocial behaviour begins in adolescence and desists in young adulthood, normative offences, social mimicry, shifting reinforcement contingencies, life-long pattern of antisocial behaviour, few,persistent and pathological, high-risk environment, offending is more pervasive and serious.
