HIUS 3281 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Mount Meager, Positivism, Rationality

• School: University of Virginia
• Department: History-United States History
• Course: HIUS 3281
• Professor: Gilliam George

Document Summary

Values which are in conflict or in competition with other deeply held values but which are still recognized and accepted by many . Techniques of neutralization (differential association [sutherland and cressey] Proposition 4: when criminal behavior is learned, the learning includes (b) the specific direction of motives, drives, rationalizations, and attitudes. Sykes and mata techniques: denial of responsibility, denial of injury, mala in se, mala prohibita, denial of the victim, condemnation of the condemner, appeal to higher loyalties, leopard-shark smugglers. There is reason to believe that the techniques of neutralization precede deviant. Time order behavior and make deviant behavior possible . Refers to the balance of anticipated or actual rewards and punishments that follow or are. Expectations vs. aspirations: attachment, commitment, involvement, belief. Crime: acts of force or fraud undertaken in pursuit of self-interest . The differential tendency of people to avoid criminal acts whatever the circumstances in which they find themselves. Low self-control = drugs/crime; drugs crime.