SOC 2700 Chapter Online Article: Social Learning, Sexual and Physical Abuse, and Adult Crime

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Reza Barmaki

Document Summary

Social learning, sexual and physical abuse, and adult crime. From this perspective, one might expect abuse to be associated with offending but it should not affect the type of crimes offenders commit. Specialization: specialization is due to a special etiology, i. e. , the variables that lead individuals to commit sexual offenses are to some extent different from the variables that lead to other crime. As we only study offenders, these perspectives would predict that: (4) sexual and physical abuse are unrelated to the type of current offense. Discrimination prediction: 60% of respondents were in prison for committing nonviolent offenses. Over 90% of current sexual offenders have not been prosecuted for that offense before. In larger residential units, communities try to exclude deviant youth by not letting their children to associate with them: strong conformist traditions and relatively higher religiosity are other factors that contribute to preventing juvenile delinquent acts.