PSYC39H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Juvenile Delinquency, Social Control Theory, Social Learning Theory
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Chapter 3 theories of crime: learning and environment. Basic psychodynamic principles: the id, ego, and superego. Difficulties resolving conflicts w/in any stage=potential result in problems w/ personality development. Popular theory of how juvenile delinquency develops. Young children require consistent and continuous maternal care=develop normally. Disruption to mother-child relationship=many harmful and potentially irreversible longer-term effects (esp. establishing prosocial relationships) Lack abilities=not develop means to control conduct, more likely to exhibit antisocial patterns of behaviour. Now seems that maternal deprivation not critical factor, damage isn"t necessarily irreversible, over predicts juvenile delinquency. Unravelling juvenile delinquency: the work of glueck and glueck. Primary interests: discovering causes of crime and assessing effectiveness of correctional treatment in controlling criminal behaviour conducted cross-sectional research, compared lives of juvenile delinquents and non-juveniles (also longitudinal) took multidisciplinary approach to examine delinquency. Attributed differences between delinquents and non-delinquents to parenting factors (superego development) claims made were exaggerated (fail to take actual base rate of delinquency in general population)
