CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: White-Collar Crime, Peer Mentoring, Peer Pressure

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: James Williams

Document Summary

Slide 4: it is a stereotype and myth to say a missing black father results the children to commit more crimes. Slide 6: this is a learning theory. We are learning about the process of learning. Criminal behaviour is neither inherited nor is it the product of poverty. The key determinant of criminal activity is whether you associate with individuals or groups other than self. These provide opportunities to learn about crime and those activities. These everyday interactions and associations are much more important than modeling in tv. : the process of social learning; there 2 things that need to be learned. There are always techniques and strategies for most forms of crimes. Individuals become deviant or delinquent because of excess definitions that is favourable to the violation of law or unfavourable . People should take drugs if they want too: association with delinquent vs. non delinquent groups vary in 4 criteria.