CRJU 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Differential Association, Social Control Theory

• School: USC, SC, Carolina, South Carolina
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRJU 351
• Professor: Jamie Duncan

Document Summary

Classical school : focus on: rational choice (idea that we are rational actors) (doesn"t focus on outside factors, theories include: rational choice, routine activities. Positivist school : focus on: biological, sociological, and psychological (outside of free will and rational choice) Differential association theory (learned: varies in four important ways: frequency, duration, priority, and intensity. Control theories: (why don"t juveniles commit delinquency: indirect vs. direct control: ind. (friends, family, school) direct (criminal justice, police, courts) Social bond theory: four components: attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief. Life course theories (follows life course and relation to crime) (classical school) Examines bonds throughout the life course: what happens when bonds are weak or broken? (if something alters and what you deem important, looks at the age-crime curve (follows you through adolescence until adulthood, age-graded theory. First one in family to go to college. Focuses on circumstances that lead juveniles to delinquency: argues they are pressured into crime.