2.1 forms of social control Flashcards
(8 cards)
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Internal forms - moral conscience
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- freuds pyschoanalytic theory.
- superego tells us what’s wrong and right.
Id is our animalistic side.
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Internal forms - tradition and culture
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- culture that we belong in becomes part of us through socialisation
- e.g believers follow religious traditions they’ve been raised in
3
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Internal forms - internalisation of social norms
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Socialisation - we internalise rules through socialisation, e.g societies normal rules become our personal rules. As a result we willingly accept social norms
Rational ideology - tells us what’s right and wrong, stops us from breaking the law
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External forms - agencies of social control
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- organisations that impose rules to make us behave in a certain way
- e.g a parent may send a naughty child to their bedroom therefore they wont act in the same way again.
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External forms - criminal justice system
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The police - have powers to stop, search, arrest and detain suspects
The CPS - can charge a suspect and prosecute them in court.
Prison services - detain prisoners for the length of their sentence
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External forms - fear of punishment
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- people fear going to prison and therefore wont commit crime.
- fear acts as a deterrent.
7
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Hirschi control theory
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- Attachment - the more attached we are to others, the more we care about what they think
- Commitment - the more committed we are to a conventional lifestyle, the less likely we are to getting involved in crime because we have more to risk.
- Involvement - the more involved we are in conventional activities like sports, the less energy we have to get involved in criminal activity.
- Beliefs - if we have been socialised to obey the law, less likely we are in breaking it.
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Walter reckless
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- importance of parenting and socialisation
- effective socialisation can lead to internal containment by building self control to to resist crime.
- also argues external forms can build ‘external containment’.
