CCJS 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Attachment Theory, Travis Hirschi

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CCJS 105
• Professor: Kiminori Nakamura

Document Summary

90% of mean and 84% of women had at least one vivid homicidal thought in their lifetime. We all have some sort of motivation at one point or another. Durkheim: human needs and wants have no limits; only society can provide constraints. Freud: superego, morality, conscience is established through early social attachments. Shaw and mckay: socially disorganized communities cannot control youths. Cause of crime is a lack of social bonds to conventional others. Delinquency is thrilling, quick, easy, and provides satisfaction. (emotional) attachment: wanting to avoid disapproval from those you care about, concerned with their opinion of you. (material) commitment: deviance risks conventional investments, academic achievement, grades, etc. , don"t want to risk what you"ve worked for. (temporal) involvement: opportunity, time doing homework, playing sports, at the end of the day there is just no time to commit crime. (moral) belief: obligations to comply with conventional rules; can be weakened by learned excuses .