SOC212H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: System On A Chip, Homicide, High Crime
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Assumes deviance will occur and looks at how we can control it. Can be traced back to durkheim, hobbes and aristotle. Durkheim- suicide book- not human nature to put controls on our needs. Bentham- based social and legal controls on principles of rational calculation. Control theorist- ron clarke- the theory still meets with indifference or hostility from criminologists. Haggerty- rather looking at social causationor individual pathology, situational criminology (control. Theory) concentrates on reducing crime through loss prevention, target hardening and enhanced visability, many criminologists don"t wnt to focus on fence height, lock strength, since its for security to focus on. The neglect of control theory may also have been due to the unpopularity in liberal sociological circles of work that appears to support discipline, punishment and regulation. Gluecks- ttempted to predict delinquency in 1930s, 40s and 50s- associated with a stress on pathological, individualistic, and psychological. All now modified by hirschi and harriet wilson.
