The GGC program targets outer pressures and pulls by requiring that children attend one session targeting peer pressure issues. In a school setting adolescents are exposed to students from distinct backgrounds that may or may not be present risk factors leading to delinquency. In order to fit in at school they may feel pressured into engaging in questionable activities; skipping school and smoking are only two examples that can lead to more serious delinquent behavior. Outer containments such as parents, school, and police are also effective discouragers of delinquency but may not always be present, which is why GCC intervenes before delinquency can no longer be contained.
Hirachi’s social control/social bonding theory explain that people …show more content…
Those who engage in delinquency have low self-control due to inadequate upbringing. Hirachi and Gottfedson also claim that self-control is present at the age of 8 and developed after that. If the GCC can intervene at an early stage this problem is diminished, furthermore, building appropriate behavior through the parent involvement as they must be able to be present in order to monitor and control behavior. Low self- control alone will not lead to delinquency. However, there must be a criminal opportunity in addition to low self-control for delinquency to take …show more content…
The GGC teaches parents the skills they lack and offer interactive discussion and feedback on the use new learned skills. Sutherland’s differential association theory explains the learning process through nine social interactions that lead to delinquency. Criminal behavior is learned through communication, personal groups, techniques and most significantly of all through learned definitions of differential association. Akers differential reinforcement theory integrates differential association and learning theory of operant conditioning which is behavior that is managed trough consequences. There are two types of reinforcement positive and negative. Positive will increase the behavior rewarded and negative will decrease the behavior being punished. Drift theory suggest that becoming a delinquent is a learned process. This is not a lifestyle and only occurs occasionally. Conventional belief and values are taken into consideration and then neutralized before engaging in delinquency. The techniques used to neutralize crime are denial of responsibility, of injury, of victim, of condemnation of the condemners, and of appeal to higher loyalties (juvenile justice, 2nd edition). Delinquency is learned through many sources that impact a person’s life on a daily basis. If intervention is applied at an early stage of an adolescent’s life,
Hirachi’s social control/social bonding theory explain that people …show more content…
Those who engage in delinquency have low self-control due to inadequate upbringing. Hirachi and Gottfedson also claim that self-control is present at the age of 8 and developed after that. If the GCC can intervene at an early stage this problem is diminished, furthermore, building appropriate behavior through the parent involvement as they must be able to be present in order to monitor and control behavior. Low self- control alone will not lead to delinquency. However, there must be a criminal opportunity in addition to low self-control for delinquency to take …show more content…
The GGC teaches parents the skills they lack and offer interactive discussion and feedback on the use new learned skills. Sutherland’s differential association theory explains the learning process through nine social interactions that lead to delinquency. Criminal behavior is learned through communication, personal groups, techniques and most significantly of all through learned definitions of differential association. Akers differential reinforcement theory integrates differential association and learning theory of operant conditioning which is behavior that is managed trough consequences. There are two types of reinforcement positive and negative. Positive will increase the behavior rewarded and negative will decrease the behavior being punished. Drift theory suggest that becoming a delinquent is a learned process. This is not a lifestyle and only occurs occasionally. Conventional belief and values are taken into consideration and then neutralized before engaging in delinquency. The techniques used to neutralize crime are denial of responsibility, of injury, of victim, of condemnation of the condemners, and of appeal to higher loyalties (juvenile justice, 2nd edition). Delinquency is learned through many sources that impact a person’s life on a daily basis. If intervention is applied at an early stage of an adolescent’s life,