CRJS 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Embezzlement, Stereotype, Murder

• School: Mount Royal University
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CRJS 1001
• Professor: Andreas E.Tomaszewski

Document Summary

#2: children who"s parents care about them and supervise/discipline them = develop self-control and resist temptations offered by crime, self-control = helps people in the future w/ school, work and relationships, mixed results when put to test: Found that crime opportunity was just as strong a predictor. Juvenile delinquents = low self-control of fraud/aggression as was low self-control. Theory is not successful with violent crimes, such as homicide: tautological circular reasoning and gives appearance of casual. A general theory of crime = tautological because it does not define self-control independent from the tendency to commit crimes relationship where one does not exist. Calling for limits on number of children women have, or mandating birth control. The life course perspective: about the long-term effects of offending + victimization transferred to electronic databases then analyszed using modern statistical techniques. Reanalyzed by robert sampson and john laub raw data was. Collected sample of 25,000 children aged 0-11.