CRIM 103 Lecture Notes - Tantrum, Social Capital, Social Control Theory
24 Feb 2013
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Majority of teenagers take better pathways that end up with less juvenile offending. Factors may lead kids on positive pathway or negative pathway. Hard to tell what relationship poverty has since a lot of other factors are attached to poverty. People living in poverty are more likely to commit crime and to be victimized. Poverty related to a lot of different conditions (ie discrimination, violence, etc) Children learn behaviour from parents -> likely to repeat behaviour in life. Delinquent acts more common in groups than solo. Direct result of association with deviant peers. Deviant youths drawn to deviant peers; amplifies already existing tendencies. 50% developed clinically significant antisocial behavior (rejected) as opposed to the 9% that were not rejected. > indirect relationship: children at risk for poor language, cognitive, social and emotional level. Not directly low quality child care, but the results of poor child care that influence negative.
