Social Process Theories Flashcards

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Social Process Theories

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Based on the process of socialization

All people have the potential to become delinquents or criminals

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Elements of Socialization

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  • Family structure and functioning
  • Educational experience
  • Peer relations
  • Institutional Involvement and belief
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Social Learning Theories

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  • Crime is a learned behavior
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Differential Association Theory

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  • Criminal behaviors are learned
  • Learning takes place through criminal teachers
  • Criminal behaviors defined and valued in a favorable light
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Criticisms of DAT

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  • Fails to account for the origin of crime
  • Assumes crime is pre planned and group based
  • Internalization of deviant norms may follow, rather than precede, crime
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Neutralization theory

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-Criminals learn techniques that enable them to neutralize conventional values
-Explains why:
criminals age out of crime
onset of white collar crime
why youthful law violators can participate in conventional behavior

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Basics of NT

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  • Criminals sometimes voice guilt
  • Offenders frequently respect and admire honest, law abiding people
  • Line drawn between who can and can’t be victimized
  • Not immune to demands of conformity
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Neutralization techniques

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  • Deny the victim
  • Deny responsibility
  • Condemn condemners
  • Appeal to higher loyalty
  • Deny injury
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Criticisms of Social Learning

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  • Fail to account for origin
  • Fail to explain random crimes
  • Little evidence that people learn techniques before committing crimes
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