CRIM 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: General Strain Theory, Relative Deprivation, White-Collar Crime

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 101
• Professor: Barry Cartwright

Document Summary

Problems and moral panics (both sociological) originally came out of the discipline of sociology. Negative affect is the key factor (or intervening condition) that links strain. Strain moderators efficacy, and social support (from family and from non-delinquent peers: other strain moderators include attachment to parents and teachers, and commitment to school. School thinking, and to the notion that social disorganization leads to the breakdown of informal social controls, and thus to the formation of criminal subcultures. The forces of integration: social forces of attraction, social bonds, collective beliefs. The forces of regulation: social forces of restraint, laws, the criminal justice system. Hirschi"s social bond theory: attachment (to parents, school teachers and significant others, commitment (to doing well at school, keeping a good reputation, involvement (in organized sports, doing homework, belief (in the law, and in conventional norms and values) Terrence thornberry"s interactional theory is rooted in durkheimian notions of social control, social bonds and social constraints .