CRIM 012H Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Larceny, Cultural Capital, Social Capital
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Social change and changes in criminal opportunity: wwii and property crime. It was opportunities for differential association, and how these were woven into the social organization of groups that were more important. But: he recognized the role of selection in channeling individuals toward or away from associations/opportunities. Internal and external limits to behavior; these mutually influence each other. Agency and constraint: choice is a compromise between what is sought and what can be sought . The role of selection in world of crime: current and prior social roles shape one"s selection into partnerships, cliques, networks, groups, etc. Proximal and distal causes of crime/deviance: opportunities in your everyday life, and you place in social structure. Illegitimate means unequally distributed, as well as legitimate means . Crucial for explaining the distribution and types of crime across social structure. Social structure and conventional and deviant opportunity: richard cloward and lloyd ohlin (1959) Combines strain/anomie theory with differential association/social learning theory.
