CRIM 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Relational Aggression, Social Change, Shoplifting

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 103
• Professor: Jennifer Wong

Document Summary

Origins of criminal behaviour: developmental risk factors (p. 1-7) Idenify social, family, and psychological developmental risk factors that lead to delinquency and crime. Demonstrate how early preschool experiences can lead to a life or anisocial behaviour. Emphasize the overriding inluence of peer rejecion on child and youth behaviour. Stress the connecion between cogniive abiliies and delinquency and crime. Introduce adhd and conduct disorders as possible contributors to delinquent behaviour. Each person follows a diferent developmental pathway, characterisics of which oten can be ideniied at a very early age (1) Developmental perspecive views life course of all humans as following a pathway (trajectory) that may be litered with risk factors: some experts believe: risk factor ^ = probability of paricipaing in anisocial behaviour throughout lifeime ^ Negaive qualiies in marital - and parent - relaionships in both prekindergarten and kindergarten are risk factors for low social skills, aggressive behaviour, and rejecion in the early years of elementary school .