CRM/LAW C108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Peer Pressure, Homicide, Edwin Sutherland
24 Oct 2016
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Social learning theories (not on midterm, will be on final) Considered micro theories of crime (criminal theories trying to explain why people commit crimes as opposed to why certain neighborhoods have certain crime rates) Thought of as a micro-micro theory because it"s focused on the interactions that people have with one another that make them more or less prone to committing crime. Crime results when there is some negative situation (all but classical school) classical school rational, normal people weighing costs and benefits of crime. Biology and biosocial abnormal biology; biosocial when people are exposed to negative environments, they are more prone to criminality. ^^^focused on impoverished people, not rich people. Differential association or differential group organization : one year after merton proposes strain theory and anomie. 1) criminal behavior is learned: people are not criminal/criminally disposed because of some biological or personality trait or because they grew up in a disorganized neighborhood; they learn how to commit crime.
