CRIM 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: School Violence, Hegemonic Masculinity, Visible Minority
14 Apr 2017
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Chapter 7: family, school, peers, and the youth crime problem. Microscopic persepctive: theoretical approaches that focus on individuals and behavior in small social settings rather than in the context of larger social structures. Family structure: how families are structured in terms of living arrangements: traditional nuclear fmialy or a single aprent family. Recent rsearch has identified as many as nine family types: lesbian. Broken homes hypothesis: the commonly held proposition that children from divorced and single-parent fmailies are more likely to be delinquent. Meta-analysis: a type of analyss in which the unit of analysis is the research results from other research reports. Relationships is stronger for minor crimes than for serous ones. To the extent tha there are negative effects on children these effects are greater for boys than girls. Negative parent-child relaitonshisp and poor parenting skills have been identified as significant risk factors for youth criminality.
