CJ 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Travis Hirschi, Social Control Theory, Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Anti-social personality disorder: definition: difficulty or the inability to feel empathy for strangers, the underlying pathology of most serial killers. Control theory: components, behavior is governed by its consequences, everyone is a potential offender, socialization bonds/ties us to conventional society, bonds protect people from the temptation of deviance. Important bonds: (of) attachment, commitment, involvement, belief: similar to classical theory, assumes universal motivation of crime, deviance. Interested in why most people conform: focuses on restraints rather than motivations as key to explaining crime, kinds, broken-bond theory. Socialization began early on but was interrupted at a critical time: failure-to-bond. Assumes that the creation of a commitment to convention is problematic. ~ affectionless characters : unable to empathize; cannot see/feel pain that harm causes others. F. ivan nye: three kinds of control (2) indirect. Walter reckless: containment theory (1) direct (3) internal. ~adolescents are motivated towards delinquency by environment and peers will violate law unless protected by both internal and external containments/control.
