CRIM 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Social Control Theory, Differential Association

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 104
• Professor: Tarah Hodgkinson

Document Summary

Chapter 12 toward an interactional theory of deviance. Terence thornberry: 2 most important sociological perspectives for explaining crime and deviance. Widespread motivation to engage in criminal/deviant behaviour. Most individuals would engage in such behaviour from time to time, if social controls/restraints were not in place to prevent them from doing so. Widespread motivation to engage in criminal/deviant behaviour doesn"t necessarily exist. Nonconforming behaviour must be learned (same manner that conforming: 3 main limitations of social control theory and social learning theory: behaviour is learned) Concerned primarily with the type of criminality that occurs during mid- adolescence. Do not adequately take into account the effects of the social structure on crime and. Interactional theory deviance: rooted in durkheimian notions of social control, social bonds and social constraints, also a life course or developmental theory.