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| Implies only that there are differences. |
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| Structural Strain Theory (Merton) |
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| People commit crimes because they lack the means to achieve the ends. |
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| General Strain Theory (Agnew) |
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| People get frustrated, feel stressed, and commit crimes. |
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4 bonds:
Attachment, Commitment, Involvement, Belief |
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| Early Socialization is important to delinquency. |
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| Differential Association Theory |
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| We learn delinquency from others, both the values and techniques. States that there is no deviant behavior, only conformity. |
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| Birds of a Feather Debate |
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Social Control: low social control leads to hanging out with delinquent peers.
Differential Association Theory: Hanging out with delinquent peers leads to low social control. |
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| Retributive, utility, parenting, therapeutic, Compensatory, Conciliatory, Compliance |
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Mechanism: Criminal Law
Goal: Justice
Principle: Guilt/Innocence
Solution: Incarceration |
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Mechanism: Criminal Law
Goal: Limit Expenses
Principle: Risk/Benefit
Solution: Treat/Scare |
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Mechanism: Family Law
Goal: Welfare of Kid and Society
Principle: Best Interest |
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Mechanism: Psychiatric Law
Goal: Normality
Principle: Need
Solution: Treatment |
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Mech.:Civil Law
Goal: $ value on bad deeds
Principle: Material
Solution: Pay fines |
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Goal: Harmony, mutual advantage
Principle: Conflict
Solution: Negotiation |
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Mech.: Reg. or Ad. Law
Goal: Conformity
Principle: Conformity
Solution: Fine, deauthorization |
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| Conspicuous Consumption - Veblen |
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| We buy things so that other people can see that we have them. |
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| Have Nots/ The Working Class |
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| Capitalists, Managers, Petty Bourgeoisies, Workers, Underclass |
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| Interngenerational Mobility |
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| Movement between generations (parents to kids) |
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| Intragenerational Mobility |
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| Movement within one's lifespan. |
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| Merit Determines ability to change class. |
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| Mobility is not allowed between the classes. |
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| Objective Measurement of Classes |
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| Add income, education, and occupation using standard score |
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| Subjective Measurement of one's class |
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| Reputational measurement of Class |
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| People are poor because they subscribe to a culture of poverty. |
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| Expressed Belief that another group is inferior. |
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| People think they are not biased, but subconscious decisions show that in fact they are. |
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| Racially based decision gets codified. Is used over and over again. Like the punishments for robbery. |
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