Chapter 7 Flashcards
Social Process theory (main for chapter)
Criminality is a function of people’s interactions with various organizations, institutions, and processes in society
Social learning theory
people learn to be aggressive by observing others acting aggressively to achieve some goal or being rewarded for violent acts
Social control theory
The view that people commit crime when the forces that bind them to society are weakened or broken
Social reaction Theory (social labelling)
People become criminals when labelled as such and they accept the label as a personal identity
Differential Association theory
people commit crime when their social learning leads them to percieve more definitions favouring crime than favouring conventional behaviour
Neutralization Theory
Law violators learn to neutralize conventional values and attitudes, enabling them to drift back and forth between criminal and conventional behaviour.
Primary deviance
norm violation or crime with little or no long term influence on the violator
Secondary deviance
norm violation or crime that comes to the attention of significant others or social control agents who apply a negative label with long term consequences for the violators self identity and social interactions
Hirschi’s control thoery
a perons’s bond to society prevents him r her from violating social rules. if the bond weakens, the person is free to commit crime.
Labelling thoery
People enter into law violating careers when they are labelled for their acts and organize their personalities around the labels
