CRIM 300W Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Compulsory Education, Lifesaving, Cheese Fries
19 Nov 2016
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Individuals are not born as good or evil , though most of us are self-interested, we will take good actions when they produce some type of. They are born as self-interested, hedonistic pleasure-seekers. Crim300 chapter 8: control theories of crime. Natural state of humans is one of . It is constant competition between selfish individuals. Give up some rights (eg. steal from others) to gain protection from the state. Restraints begin to deter people from committing crime. Informal (social norms, shared values: crime is natural. Control theory wants to discover what causes people to not commit crime. Most crim theories want to discover what causes ppl to commit crime. We resist temptation out of fear of what others may do to us. Those with few stakes in conformity have fewer reasons to resist crime when given opportunity. People resist criminal temptation bc their conformity has led to rewards. Rewards may be jeopardized if they were to commit crime.
