CRJU110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Differential Association, Social Capital
16 Jan 2017
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Lesson 10: age-crime relationship: the debate: latent trait vs. life course. Life course approach: age distribution is not invariant, age has an indirect effect on crime, age is correlated with important events or factors which are highly related to crime. Transitions, turning points, trajectories: context of behavior over time. Qualitative and quantitative: trajectory: pathway of development (long, transitions: life events, turning point: change in the life course. Compared to g&h"s claims: is criminal propensity set by age 8 (gottfredson and hirschi self-control theory), Warr"s (1993) age, peers, and delinquency: does age have a direct impact on crime, age -> peers -> delinquency. At age 11, 95% of persons report no delinquent peers. At age 16, percentage dropped about 40 points. By age 18, only 25% of peers were not delinquent. The study: early origins: (1930s and 1940s: unraveling juvenile delinquency: sheldon & eleanor glueck 1950, case control design: 500 non-delinquents from same low income neighborhoods.
