CRJS 2009 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Peer Pressure, Edwin Sutherland, Deindividuation

• School: Mount Royal University
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CRJS 2009
• Professor: Kelly W.Sundberg

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Animal aggressions that can compare to humans: Intermale aggressions men competing for status of being the toughest and strongest: fear-based aggression violence in response to perceived threat, maternal aggression females protecting their young. Irritable aggression pain, frustration, deprivation leading to violence: sex-based aggression violence used in sexual relationships, territorial aggression defence of land that has been defined as their own. Early scientific studies = focused on body types, skull shapes, bad genes, and atavistic (ex. Improve human race through selective breeding practices, forced sterilization programs: happened in alberta. Recent research focuses on brain injuries, and substances in the body. Data messages are transmitted between nerve cells via synapse small gap between nerve cells or neurons -> serotonin helps relay those messages over the gap. Without se(cid:396)oto(cid:374)i(cid:374) = data does(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ake it a(cid:272)(cid:396)oss the gap, o(cid:396) is i(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:373)plete if it does. Does(cid:374)"t p(cid:396)o(cid:448)ide e(cid:454)pla(cid:374)atio(cid:374) fo(cid:396) (cid:373)o(cid:396)e (cid:272)al(cid:272)ulated fo(cid:396)(cid:373)s of (cid:448)iole(cid:374)(cid:272)e.