CJS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Control Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, Tunxis Community College
8 Dec 2020
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Locate cause of crime in group interactions. George mead: behaviour is a product of social circumstances and perception of the circumstances. Differential association (sutherland) white collar crime. Criminal behaviour is learned by interaction with other people. Learn techniques and specific direction (moral codes: favourable or unfavourable) Crime occurs when excess favourable in violation of the law. Examine content and process of what is learned. Criminality seeks out other criminals and learns from them. Secondary deviance: negative reaction to primary deviance becomes a stable behaviour (person labelled with negative terms) People engage in crime when they drift and neutralise social expectations. Learned techniques of neutralisation by other delinquents: denial of responsibility, denial of injury, denial of victims, condemnation of condemners, appeal to higher loyalties. Integration approaches: more than 2 theories account for greater amount of criminal behaviour. Agnew: combine structural strain, social control theory and social learning theory to explain why offending occurs at adolescence.
