CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Roots, Squeegee Man

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: James Williams

Document Summary

Pathways to education- has been applied throughout canada. Strain theory (slide 3: greater emphasis on family, religion. School readiness such as interpersonal and social skills, skills that are designed to build self-confidence that allow them to interact with one another. These show beneficial transitions from elementary to high school. Success in school is important in shaping one"s life: how class positions restricts people from being successful in life. You can look at gender, race, sexuality, religion. The way society influences us can have implications on crime. If you come from a particular class position you have these goals which you have to achieve, which then leads to strain, and then crime. Strain doesn"t really account for differential responses to strain. People respond to strain in different ways: a consensus model of crime. What is defined in crime is in criminal law. It is a consensus based approached to the definition of crime.