CRIM 103 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Somatotype And Constitutional Psychology, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Birth Weight
6 Dec 2016
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Accompanied with racism, discrimination, family disruption, unsafe conditions, unemployment. Difficult to identify which specific risk factors responsible for increase in crime. Increase to peer influence, decrease to parental influence. Cascade effect -conduct disorder lead to peer rejection. Any child who falls into deviant groups is susceptible. Antisocial meets similar deviant peers (birds of a feather flock together) Encourages already existing tendencies for delinquency -most supported (combination of first two) Rejected for least 2~3 years by gr. 2 50 percent chance of antisocial behavior in adolescents. 1947 12percent mother with children under age 6 worked outside home. 60 perecnt of children under 5 in non-parental or some form of daycare. Risk of language, cognitive, social and emotional skills. Meeting with other at-risk youth -opportunity to meet deviant peers. 8 year old boys failing in school nearly double delinquency. Harlow 2003 75 percent of prison inmates had not completed high school. Higher level of reading =greater attachment to school, better future.
