SOC212H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Police Misconduct, Radical Behaviorism, Anomie
17 Jan 2013
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While control theories can be traced back as far as the musings of aristotle, hobbes, and. Durkheim, bentham first theorized felicific calculus all human action is a cost-benefit analysis (benefit must outweigh the cost for the action to be plausible) Control theory can also be considered situational criminology focusing on the situational causes of crime rather than internal causes within offenders; target hardening, enhanced visibility, etc. are considered to be subjects for security consultants, not criminologists (haggerty) Gluecks predicting delinquency based on three factors: i) maternal affection towards the child, ii) maternal supervision of the child, and iii) family cohesion: resurfaced in the work of hirschi and wilson. Sykes and matza delinquents adhere to the same value set as everyone else, but differ in their techniques of neutralization; these techniques neutralize the social bond, thus freeing them to participate in deviant/delinquent behaviour. Jackson toby delinquents versus non-delinquents only differ in their stake in conformity .
