SOC222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychopathy, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Cesare Lombroso
4 Feb 2016
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*juvenile delinquency is related to and emerges from multiple sources: Research focuses on two primary areas: possible internal or external factors that could explain a young persons, systemic responses that we employ to prevent and control antisocial behaviour behaviour including youth crime. Lots of theories that don"t do a very good job at explaining youth crime. Some theories have become very popular, which has resulted in practices that help to control youth crime. Theories do not apply to all youth across the board and all types of delinquency. Three aspects: nature: what constitutes youth crime and under what conditions, extent: frequency of behaviour, duration of offending, seriousness of offence, cause: both macro and micro, includes individual, social, structural, environmental characteristics. Two concepts needing clarification: how theory is defined, what criteria required to establish causality a, purpose of theory: Established by testing the concepts and the relationships that the theory suggests exists.
