SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Trainspotting (Film), Compstat, Aggressive Panhandling
Document Summary
In fact we do both; people can develop ties/bonds to the established order (it"s more complicated) Control theory (hierschi: deviance does not require special motivation, the real question is why don"t more people engage in deviance? . Deviance: have strong prosperity" to deviance; can potentially be rewarding, trainspotting (movie) about heroin addicts. Conformity due to strong social controls: attachment/involvement in concrete institutions, stake in conformity, girls lower crime rate because they are more supervised & more attachment to family. Can social control work from above: minneapolis domestic violence experiment, police randomly arrest for spousal arrest, arrest => less subsequent violence, less likely to re-offence, the experiment contributed to mandatory arrest. Specify effects of mandatory arrest: better to arrest employed persons, more likely to re-assault if unemployed vs. less likely to re-assault if employed (don"t want to lose job) If you have stakes in society: mandatory arrests lower subsequent offences. If no stake : mandatory arrests increases subsequent offences.
