CCJ 4934 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Paradigm Shift, Knowledge Organization, Differential Association

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Sociology, Criminology and Law - Criminology
• Course: CCJ 4934
• Professor: Chris L Gibson

Document Summary

Focus on age 12-20: excludes earlier childhood and adult experiences. Criminal career debated between gottfredson-hirschi and opponents: g/h argued that there is no need for longitudinal data in the developmental perspective. Superpredators- 5-10% percent that commit large majority of crime. Incarcerate until they grow out of crime/become too old. Instruments for risk assessment were not good at predicting recidivism: leads to a policy that is not grounded in science. Paradigm- accepted standard used to organize information- agreement on relevant detail within the discipline. Largely sociological- neglected individual differences in neurobiology and psychology: those focusing on biological origins labeled racist, came from sutherland"s differential association theory. Cullen: get rid of adolescence limited criminology and shift toward a life course perspective. Sutherland- differential association: against examining individual differences between people- specifically biological factors, gluke and gluke run stanford study that counters sutherland- leads to field being split.