CRIM 2200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: White-Collar Crime, Irredeemable, Micro Men
9 Dec 2016
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Everyone has potential to be criminal, but most ppl abstain bc of their bonds to society. When those social bonds (attachment, belief, commitment, involvement) are weakened. Explains presence of crime in all social classes. All forms of social attachment, even to delinquent peers/parents, is considered beneficial, but research shows delinquent peers/parents influences criminality. Social bonds weakened during adolescence; may be reformed as individual grows up and forms attachments to job and family. Individuals have more to lose by committing crime as they get older. Everyone has potential to be criminal, but most have trait of self-control that makes them abstain. Low self-control; parents fail to detect, monitor, and punish bad behavior or else child will have low self-control that persists into adulthood. Assumes offenders are irredeemable if they were not taught self- control in early childhood. Individuals learn criminal behaviors through interactions w others. Exposure to more favorable than unfavorable definitions of crime.
