SOC 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Concentric Zone Model, Ernest Burgess, Social Learning Theory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

Individuals interacting within their social environments are key for understanding aggression and violence. Developed by sigmund freud in latter part of nineteenth and early twentieth century. Person"s psychological well-being dependent on the id, ego and superego. Criminal behaviour is a result of unresolved psychological conflicts. Aggressive behaviour is learned through a series of psychological thought processes and perceptions. Difficult to explain criminal behaviour without taking into account influences of the community, the broader social environment and the particular circumstances surrounding the criminal event itself. Unable to account for changes in level of crime over time, or differences in the spatial distribution of crime. A compulsive person who lacks guilt, remorse, and is unable to hold lasting bonds with others. Deceitfulness, repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure. Reckless disregard for the safety of self or others. Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated or stolen from another.