Chapter 8 pt.2 Flashcards
What is the Situational Action Theory
the theory that believes various personal and environmental factors can influence people into engaging in crime
What does the Situational Action Theory say about moral actions
that crimes can best be understood as moral actions
What does the SAT suggest
that peoples actions are the result of how they perceive alternative actions
What does the “Age Graded Theory of Social Control seek to understand
why people start being involved in crime, why they keep on doing it, and what changes in life stop them from offending
what are the three mechanisms of informal social control (with the context of family)
- Attachment to the family
- Monitoring
- Consistent Discipline
What does the Age Graded Theory suggest
that social structural facts influence social bonds
What is Distributed Social Control
events or circumstances that weaken or destroy relationships
What is Cumulative Continuity
a model that outlines how crime in younger years (adolescence) has negative consequences for future life changes
What are “Life-Course Turning Points”
events that have a purpose to direct a criminal away from that life (like employment, marriage)
What are Trajectories
paths of development throughout the life of a person
What are Situated Choices
choices that people make to become involved in certain relationships
What did Moffitt Argue
that there are two key types of offending paths, adolescent-limited and life-course-persistent offenders
Explain the Adolescent-Limited (AL) path
AL offenders only offend during their adolescent years
Explain what “life-course-persistent offenders” are
offenders that ave antisocial behaviour in their early life, and engage in crime for most of their lives
What are Abstainers
People who NEVER commit crime
