SOSC 2650 Lecture Notes - Fallacy, Impulsivity, White-Collar Crime
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Lecture 10 social control and social bond theories. Lecture overview: brief recap, sykes and matza: techniques of neutralization (1957, hirschi: social control theory (1969, hirschi and gottfredson: general theory of crime (1990, policy implications, sykes and matza: neutralization theory, elaboration of sutherland"s differential association theory. Is an example of a social process theory (social learning) Also known as social learning theory = techniques and attitudes of crime through interactions of close peers: naturalization theory = a social process = simple observations. How some people refuse to commit crime attempts to explain these ideas on how some people commit crimes while others don"t; it underlies socialization and how the individual is connected to society. Cultural deviance theory cannot explain the following: lower class = crime and delinquent behaviour which means it"s okay: young offenders feel guilt or shame. Drug dealers in the islam faith (muslim drug dealers)
