SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sexual Assault, Family Values, Reference Group

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

If the reference group respects the law: increased probability of aversion to criminal behaviour. If reference group is ambivalent: ambivalence about crime (could go either way) Intensity: emotional involvement, parents teaching you criminal behaviour is much more intense: the process of learning criminal behaviour by association with criminal and anti-criminal patterns involves all the mechanisms involved with any other type of learning. Howard becker study: did research on how people become marijuana users, did interviews will 50 different marijuana users and asked them how they started, who they did it with. In order to reduce crime, we need to have our conforming individuals to be higher than our non- conforming individuals: after school programs. Individuals who have already committed a crime have parole officers: cannot associate with other known criminals, places you are not allowed to go, community services, aa, psychiatrists, social workers.