SOC109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mortimer J. Adler, Differential Association, Criminology
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Soc109 introduction to criminology and law and society. It"s who you know: differential association & differential. The ongoing role that positivist thinking has for today"s criminal justice policies. Today we will bring these perspectives fully into the 21st century and full-circle with the resurgence of classicist thought. Understand the emergence of social learning theories. Consider the application of normal human learning processes in relation to crime and. Explore the relationship between micro and macro-level forces in choosing crime and deviance. deviance. Understand and assess some key critiques of these approaches. We now consider criminology to be a science, this is a relatively recent development. 1933 - claims that criminology has a lack of explanatory theories (why crime happened) To them, criminology was descriptive in nature. Presents info on the crime but didn"t really analyze crime. We know the nature and extent of crime but unsure of the cost of crime and how to reliably prevent crime.
