CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Control Theory, Anti-Social Behaviour, Sampson

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 104
• Professor: Barry Cartwright

Document Summary

Integrated theories: many new criminological theories are integrated theories, bring two or more theories together to create more powerful model. Thus spake thornberry: 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. Interactional theory: thornberry attempts to integrate social control and social learning theory, examines how causal variables in delinquency have reciprocal effects. Interactional theory cont: successful attachment to parents results in more commitment, involvement and belief, weak attachment to parents makes child more open to deviant alternatives (e. g. deviant peers, deviant peers like to weaken attachment to parents. Turning points: form of control theory developed by sampson and laub, social bonds vary (informal social controls) vary or change over the life course, social ties in later life (e. g. marriage, children, job) may offset earlier trajectories into criminal behaviour.