CRJU 591C Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Conduct Disorder, Rob Sampson
5 Jul 2018
Department
Course
Professor
Informal Social Control
Lecture Outline
Rob Sampson & John Laub
Social Control/Social Bonding: first came out to understand juvenile behavior
Social bonds:
Attachment- extent to which individuals have close ties with others (family and parents in
particular)
Commitment- extent to which individuals have a stake in conformity.
Involvement- being engaged in conventional activities without free time to engage in deviant
behavior. Parents typically put you in activities.
Belief- belief in legitimacy of the law. We are in a legitimacy crisis right now with police.
Age graded theory of social control.
Informal Social Control
Definition: bonds that link members of society to one another and to social institutions, like
work, family, and school
Institutions change with age-
Childhood/adolescence:
Young adulthood:
Middle adulthood:
Thesis
From Sampson and Laub (1993) Chapter 1:
1. Structural context mediated by informal family and school social controls explains
delinquency in early childhood and adolescence. (focuses on earlerier years)
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Sampson and Laub’s version of low self control: CP: Difficult temperament. Persistent tantrums.
Early conduct disorder
FSCP: Erratic, harsh discipline. Lack of supervision. Rejection/hostility from parents. Child’s
reject of parent.
Household Crowdin
Family disruption
Family Size
Low Family SES
Foreign-born
Resiential mobility
Mother’s employment
Father’s
criminality/drinking
Mother’s crim
Context in which you grow up in
has an ability for your family to
serve as a social control and if you
have no social control therefore
leads to delinquency
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Document Summary
Social control/social bonding: first came out to understand juvenile behavior. Attachment- extent to which individuals have close ties with others (family and parents in particular) Commitment- extent to which individuals have a stake in conformity. Involvement- being engaged in conventional activities without free time to engage in deviant behavior. We are in a legitimacy crisis right now with police. Definition: bonds that link members of society to one another and to social institutions, like work, family, and school. From sampson and laub (1993) chapter 1: structural context mediated by informal family and school social controls explains delinquency in early childhood and adolescence. (focuses on earlerier years) Context in which you grow up in has an ability for your family to serve as a social control and if you have no social control therefore leads to delinquency. Sampson and laub"s version of low self control: cp: difficult temperament.
