Sociology 2267A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Pauperism, Auguste Comte, Thought Criminals

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Causal relationships: before causality established must be, relationship b/w concepts within and among theory, time priority must be established b/w concepts, whether we can be certain that there is no other causal factor relations to both concepts (spuriousness) Nineteenth-century theorizing about crime and delinquency: religion used to understand and explain events and behaviour, more likely to blame criminal acts on satanic cults rather than (cid:498)the devil made me do it(cid:499) like back then. The dangerous class: poor, struggling to survive in face of industrialization and urbanization, not children, but parents seen as delinquents, dependents, defectives, mayhew thought children often carried to bear shop but drunken moms. Iq, ld, and adhd performance in school pushes them to delinquency: adhd 9x more likely to be found in delinquent children, psychosocial factors that decreased likelihood of delinquency in ld and. Adhd youth: relationship w/mother, engagement w/school, feelings of well being, feelings of victimization: early biological explanations failed to account for environmental impacts.

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