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| when controls are present, crime does not occur |
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| the destruction of bonds that unite individuals in a social order so that each person is forced to go it alone; Durkheim (lawlessness and normlessness) |
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| focuses on how and individual responds to the way society has set the role their in |
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| developed the looking-glass self |
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| "I" represents the awareness of self; "me" represents the social self |
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| personal control v. social control |
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| Family is the most important agent of social control. Direct control, internalized control, indirect control. |
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| Containment Theory: certain factors "push" and person towards delinquency and other factors "pull" them into it by enticements |
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| Added 3 types of Neutralization |
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| juveniles drift between conformity and nonconformity |
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| Social Bond Theory, Self Control Theory |
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| delinquency is more likely when the person has a preference for taking risks. Focused on the balance of power between parents in the home. |
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| Control Ratio, people are not only the objects of control, but also the agents of control |
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| too much or too little control can cause deviance. est. a probability of deviance. |
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| differential coercion theory: people raised in an environment where coercion is used erratically are more likely to engage in delinquency |
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| primary deviance (offender tries to rationalize the criminal behavior), secondary deviance (juvenile accepts societys reaction to the behavior) |
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| 1st theorist to state that state intervention was at fault |
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| disintegrative and reintegrative shaming |
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| societal reaction is integral to the creation of crime and deviance |
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| Defiance theory: when offenders have few social bonds, they don't care what society thinks and act out in revenge on society |
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| coerced mobility theory: disproportionately removing males from high crime areas |
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| ecological bias (more arrests in poor neighborhoods) |
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| ecological bias (more arrests in poor neighborhoods) |
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| political and economic system |
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| conflict is inherent in a capitalist society |
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| conflict is caused by money, traced to an unfavorable environment |
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| culture conflict is the source of crime |
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| regardless of who is right and who is wrong, those who lose the conflict are criminals |
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| cultural norms will always exist and we must sanction those norms |
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| conflict results from an individuals relationship with authority |
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| legal realism: practical application of the law, LE itself creates conflict |
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| the lawmakers get what they want. conflicting interests b/w lawmakers and citizens |
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