CRJS 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Anathema, Decision-Making, Cohort Study

• School: Mount Royal University
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CRJS 2001
• Professor: Dr.Roman Harrison

Document Summary

Many new criminological theories are integrated theories. Bring two or more theories together, to create more powerful model. Ronald akers social learning theory attempts to integrate differential association theory, operant conditioning and imitation and modelling behaviour. Charles tittle"s control balance theory attempts to integrate control theory, deterrence theory, and propensity theory. John hagan"s power control theory attempts to integrate marxian conflict theory. Hirschi says it"s a waste of time trying to integrate theories, because their underlying assumptions are fundamentally incompatible. Says the best way to combine two ore more theories into a single, unified theory is to create an end-to-end model. End to end theory: starts with a structural (macro) theory > middle (bridging) theory > micro (process) theory. According to thornberry, the three most prominent sociological explanations of crime and deviance are: social learning theory, social control theory, a combination of social learning and social control theory. Thornberry attempts to integrate social control and social learning theory.