Midterm 2 Flashcards

(18 cards)

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Five components of moral panic

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heightened concern
hostility towards the offending group
a certain level of consensus that there is a real threat
disproportionality
volatility
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Youth crime is resulted from…explained in these theories

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learning deviant techniques and motives from peers (differential association theory)
bonds with others that restrain most of us from crime (social bonds theory)
level of self control developed early in life (general theory of crime
Structural inequalities in access to legitimate opportunities (merton’s strain theory)
illegitimate oppoprutnites (differential opportunity)
system of rewards, punishments, and role models we have been exposed to in life (social learning theory)

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Parenting style is greatly related to child delinquency

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supervision, parental control, emotional ties between parent and child

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Factors influencing youth violent crime

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male
no university aspirations
skipping school
discriminated against on the basis of race, language, or religion
have been stolen from
have been threatened
perceive school as unsafe
negative relationship with father and/or mother
going out at night without adult supervision
spending time with friends rather than with family
peer acceptance of illegal acts

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Factors influencing youth property crime

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single parent or blended family
no university aspirations
skipping school
perceive school environment as unsafe
have been stolen from
going outa t night without adult supervision
spending time alone rather tha with family
spending time with friends rather than with family
peer acceptance of illegal acts

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Family Indicators influencing gang involvement

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excessive parental controls
lax parental controls
low parental nurturance
abuse/neglect
low parental educational level
criminality among other family members
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Personal Indicators influencing gang involvement

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low self control
low motivation
truancy
failing grades
low aspirations or goals in life
substance abuse
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Community indicators influencing gang involvement

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community disorganization
high crime rates
high population turnover
lack of cultural resources
lack of recreational resources
gang presence
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School indicators influencing gang involvement

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negative school environment
violence in the school
low expectations for students
inadequate funding for school resources
lax controls over students
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atavists

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evolutionary throwbacks according to Lombroso’s theory of crime based on evolution

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Positivist Theories

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explain why people act in deviant ways
functionalist theories under this category type
learning theories
and theories of social control

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Functionalist Theories

Tautological (circular)
Telological (related to goals)

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structures in society needed for smooth running of society
Durkheim: Anomie theory (society changes too quickly)
Merton: Strain Theory (social structure places limitation on people’s access to mess of achieving society’s goals)
Cloward and Ohlin: Differential Opportunity Theory (opportunities to legitimate or illegitimate opportunities)
Agnew: General Strain Theory (when we are unable to achieve goals, or great stress is placed upon us, accompanied with negative emotions)
Cohen: Theory of Status Frustration (middle class measuring rod, inequalities in society reproduced in classroom against low class males)

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Merton: strain theory

Adaptations into deviance (social structure places limitations on access to legitimate means of success)

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1) conformity: accept society goals and legitimate means of attaining them
2) Innovation: accept society goals, but reject legitimate means of attainment
3) Ritualism: reject society’s goals but accept legitimate means
4) Retreatism: reject society’s goals and means of attaining them
5) Rebellion: new goals, and new ways of attaining them

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Durkheim: Anomie Theory

Industrial revolution; when society changes too quickly people are displaced

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anomie means: normallessness
Mechanical solidarity: people bonded by likeness
Organic solidarity: people bonded by difference (division of labour)

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Merton: Anomie and Strain Theories

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Institutionalized goals: what society idealized goals, not everyone could attain them with legitimate means

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Cloward and Ohlin: Differential Opportunity Theory

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legitimate opportunities only available to some, people grow up in bad neighbourhoods or families-gangs

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Agnew: General Strain Theory

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strain can come from other sources than just reaching institutionalized goals, loss of family member, job, negative stimuli. but turned deviant with negative affect

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Cohen: Status Frustration

subcultural theory rather than functionalist

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aimed at lower class males in school, school system not really good for them, measured against a middle class measuring rod, status frustration similar to strain, mutual conversion with other boys feeling the same, reaction formation with their own goals outside of the school system