CRM 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Human Nature, Reinforcement, Recreational Drug Use
23 Jan 2017
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Wednesday september 30, 2015 and friday october 2, 2015. Social context: fbi produced uniform crime reports (some categories of people are more likely to be criminal than others, the great depression. People were committing crime because of economic needs. Even people in affluent communities were committing certain types of crimes: prohibition and the criminalization of drug use. Intellectual context: symbolic interactionism (george mead, ecological and cultural transmission theory (park & burgess, shaw & Mckay: cultural and conflict theories, chicago school: data collection. Edwin sutherland (1883-1950: grew up in religious, rural neighbourhood in nebraska, phd from the university of chicago, criminology published in 1924, final edition in 1947. Interaction and socialization (focus on individual and social psychological factors: looked at the process and structure. It is because he uses data gathering and empirical evidence to prove his theory. Critic: social disorganization theory: criminality can not be explained as only a product of physical and social conditions.
