SOCIOL 3410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Feedback, Trait Theory, Impulsivity
29 Sep 2016
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Life course theories: focuses on events throughout life course and how affects likelihood of engaging in crime, factors that shape behavior change throughout life, developmental process with both positive and negative experiences. Trauma, childhood abuse, etc: age crime curve = more positive events in later life (keeps from committing crime, disruptions in major life transitions that affect criminality. Divorce; expulsion from school: age of onset. F. 2. matters b/c if young, more sustained criminal career than someone who begins later. F. 3. late start = typically nonviolent offenders: interested in relationships with parents and peers (b/c affects criminality, why people engage and desist in crime. Feel in control of future: age-grade theory. Traits and experiences important to explaining onset of criminal behavior but cannot explain why some desist and others do not. Argue experiences in young-adulthood and beyond can take down different paths. Believe in human agency we choose to desist in crime. Juvenile cares change in adulthood (less influenced by friends)
