CRMN 3850U Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Urban Studies, Elijah Anderson, Impulsivity
8 Mar 2020
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Focuses on relationships as a key part of deviance. They explain that crime is pleasurable and that we want to do crime. The only thing stopping an individual from committing crime are their bonds. The idea of having nothing left to lose. General theory of crime - gottfredson and hirschi (don"t need to know) Background and context emphasis on the family. Built on early work on hirschi"s earlier work on social bond theory and an. Written in the 1990s while both at state university of new york in albany. Hirschi: phd in the 1960s from berkley, 100s of publications, cited over 40,000. Gottfredson: not as prolific a publisher as hirschi, but lots of publications. Died in 2017 with hirschi and directly related to control theory. Later served as president for the university of oregon. Theory and the limits of criminal justice that reviews the empirical evidence for control theory. Crime is predicted by a person"s level of self control.
