CC200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Young Offenders Act, Etiology, Phoenix Police Department
Document Summary
Chapter 7: family, school, peers and the youth crime problem. Victorian era: police identified problem youth as community"s greatest concern, and blamed the parents for the problem. Microscopic perspective: theoretical approaches that focus on individuals and behaviour in small social settings rather than in the context of larger social structures. Family structure: how families are structured in terms of living arrangements (e. g. traditional nuclear family or single-parent home) Family structure: broken home hypothesis: children from divorced and single-parents families are more likely to be delinquent. Potential for less support and supervision for the child: 3 major effects of divorce that may influence children"s behaviour: Single mother are overburdened from working and caring. Parenting: negative parent-child relationships and poor parenting skills have been identified as significant risk factors for youth criminality, two most important aspects of parenting behaviour (baumrind): Extent to which parents are supportive of their children"s needs (parental responsiveness)
