CJ 3400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: White-Collar Crime, Corporate Crime, Anti-Social Behaviour

• School: App State
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CJ 3400
• Professor: Matt Robinson

Document Summary

Elite deviance: deviant (abnormal, wrong) acts and/or illegal acts of the powerful. True, why: gender roles are learned (masculinity, sex (biological) hormones- more testosterone. 15-25 are more likely to commit crime. True for street crime, why: crime age curve, immature brains. Risk taking part is active/ strong: hormone peaks/ brain chemicals are different, less obligations. Population density: promotes stress-leads to crime. Weakly attached to school/ low aspirations/ school problems. Good relationship and disappointment leads to less drug use. Love is also good for the brain: oxytocin. Civil disobedience: intentionally breaking law to change the law. People who are poor have more strain/ stress. Do the (cid:862)fa(cid:272)ts of (cid:272)ri(cid:373)e(cid:863) hold up for elite de(cid:448)ia(cid:374)(cid:272)e: we must study elite deviance, the thing we think are true are only true for street crime. Antisocial behavior is fairly stable over life: most people stop committing crime later in life.