SOC209H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Thrasher, Social Disorganization Theory, Sicilian Mafia
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Violent crime: summarize why people are born criminals + critical. Biological theory: criminals were produced by genetic misfits who were born to break the rules. Medical model: punishment should fit the criminal. Crime should be prevented before it occurs; sentencing is a treatment because offenders are not morally responsible. Biological factors interact with non biological ones to determine behaviour. ( us guns /japan: genetic factors insufficient to determine adult criminality, impulsive does not cause crime, most born criminals are not criminals. Most offenders are not mentally defective: xxy less rather than more aggressive than xy prisoners, only in certain environmental contexts may cause crime, medicalize political issues, denial of due process rights, mobolized by media, quick fix solution. Psychological theory: abnormal behaviour is a result of mind and thought process that forms during human development in early years. Their motivation is influced by phychological variables ( learning history) Institutional level: changing laws so they don"t affect people negatively.
