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20 Cards in this Set
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Containment Theory
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Youth insultated form deliquency by internal and external controls.
Reckless |
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Theory of the Bond
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Strong social bonds insulate youth against deliquent behaviour.
Hirschi |
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General Theory of Crime
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Criminal activity appeals to people who are:
low self-control impulsive Gottfredson/Hirschi |
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Power-Control Theory
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Due to differential control, (women have more control than men), men have a higher prospect to engage in risk taking and deliquent behaviour.
Hagon, Gilld, Simpson |
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Interactional Theory (of deliquency)
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Weak ties to conventional others increase likehood of deliquent behaviour, but ties can be strengthened over time.
Terrence Thornberry |
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Labelling Theory
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Frustration created by particular social arrangements may motivate criminal behaviour. `
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Secondary deviance
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Feedback of person being called disreptuable may begin to believe it.
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Self-fulfilling prophecy
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People percieved as beyond redemption act as if they are.
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Differential Coercion Theory
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How application of control intesnifies rather than discourages criminal behaviour.
Colvin |
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Control Balance Theory
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Control ratio. When amount of control we're subject to is realitve to amount of control we can exercise is balanced, things are fine. When ratio is out, offending occurs.
Tittle |
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Life Course Perspective
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Adult criminaliy is strongly influenced by patterns of childhood behaviour, and changes in peoples lives affect likelyhood of involvement in crime.
Simpson and Laub |
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Trajectories
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Describe the direction which lives seem to be moving.
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Transistions
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Specific events that may or may not alter trajectories.
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Informal social controls
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Casual methods of coercion employed by community members to maintain confromity.
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Inner containments
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Products of effective socialization and the successful internalization of rules regarding acceptable behaviour.
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Outer containments
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Aspect of individual's social environment (primary groups)that help to ensure that deliquent behaviours does not occure.
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Attachment
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Degree to which children are sensitive to the expectations of parents or teachers.
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Commitment
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The size of investment of time + energy that a youth has made to a conventional activity.
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Involvement
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Participation in the world of confromity so that little time is left deliquency.
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Belief
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The degree to which youths beleive that the conformist values of teachers and parents are worthy of respect.
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