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
