SOCPSY 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Substance Abuse, Parenting Styles, Inculturation
3 Mar 2020
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Social processes factors: family relations: long standing role in theories of deviance, parenting style, whether or not they misbehave as children and become criminals, discipline = authoritarian / inconsistent. Involvement with other activities (i. e. sports and clubs) has similar impact: observations of human interactions directly or indirectly (media, rewarded actions = copied or mimicked, punished actions = avoided. Criminal behaviour is learned in interactions with others: social interaction, 3. Most crime is learned in intimate groups: embedded in the intimate personal groups, 4. Learning crime includes learning techniques, motives, rationalizations and attitudes: picking locks etc, 5. directives, motives and drives are reflected in different social attitudes towards the law, 6. A person becomes a criminal when they view crime has having more benefits than not: 7. Differential associations vary in frequency, duration, priority and intensity: do you trust them, how long are you doing this, 8. Learning definitions favourable to crime leads to illegal behaviour.
