CCJ 4934 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Biosocial Criminology, Human Genome Project, Lead Poisoning

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

Document Summary

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. Sutherland ends up being favored: hirschi, social bond theory- influenced research by articulating a general theory that provides a puzzle- attachment, belief and other components help guide research, set up theory testing to put theories against one another. Cullens thoughts: causes of crime general, no need to study childhood, what happens in early life may affect what happens later, can rely on adolescents conveniently stored in school. Studies to determine which general theory in delinquency was best. Bankrupt paradigm: can"t get anything else of value out of alc research, must move from this paradigm to something different to produce research of scientific merit.