Cultural Deviance Theory
Strain Theory
Social Control Theory
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Miscellaneous
100
Delinquency is the result of conditions that exist within certain neighborhoods in cities.
What is Cultural Deviance Theory
100
An idea that is a building block of strain theory.
What is anomie
100
Theory that assumes that people are naturally self-interested and prone to delinquency
What is Social Control Theory
100
The process through which criminal values are transmitted from one generation to the next.
What is Cultural Transmission
100
Edward Sutherland Daniel Glaser C. Ray Jeffery Ronald Akers Walter Miller
Who are the contributors to cultural deviance theory
200
Criminologists who argued that run-down areas of a city create social disorganization, social disorganization fosters cultural conflicts, cultural conflict allows delinquency to flourish and when allowed to flourish delinquency becomes a full-time career.
Who is Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay
200
French sociologists who was of the founders of modern sociology and developer of the idea of anomie.
Who is Emile Derkheim
200
The idea that nearly all children who participate in delinquency reduce or stop such activity as they grow older.
What is maturational reform
200
Mutual trust among neighbors, combined with willingness to intervene on behalf of the common good--specifically, to supervise children and maintain public order.
What is Collective Efficacy
200
Social Bond Theory (advanced by Hirschi) and Self-Control Theory (advanced by Gottfredson and Hirschi)
What are two of the most important control theories
300
A study designed to investigate the development of delinquency and violence in children and adolescents
What is The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods
300
Sociologist who defined anomie as the permanent disjuncture that exists in society between goals that are regarded as worth striving for and institutionalized means or approved ways for reaching these goals.
Who is Robert Merton
300
A program that offers children positive experiences with police and other youths, such as providing educational workshops and showing youths the positive aspects of police work.
What is The Police Athletic League
300
The standard used by teachers to assign status to student.
What is middle -class measuring rod
300
Theory that suggests that neighborhoods characterized by poverty, residential turnover, renters, and ethnicity heterogeneity create social disorganization, which fosters cultural conflicts that then allow delinquency to flourish
What is Social Disorganization Theory
400
Delinquent behavior is learned from intimate others, typically parents and peers. Children who become delinquents have learned an excess of definitions favorable to the violation of law of definitions of unfavorable to the violation of law.
What is the Theory of Differential Associations
400
Author of book Delinquent Boys that explained why urban, lower-class boys commit crime.
Who is Albert Cohen
400
17th-century Philospher who wrote Leviathan and who is considered a father of the social control theory
Who is Thomas Hobbes
400
The primary values that monopolize lower-class consciousness
What is focal concerns
400
Theory shows how delinquency is learned from social relationships with family and friends in primary groups.
What is Differential Association Theory
500
First school of thought to reject biological and psychological theories about juvenile delinquency
What is Cultural Deviance Theory
500
Theory that contends that children are basically good. They commit crimes as a last resort, thus the best strategy to prevent delinquency is to eliminate conditions that generate stress, such as poverty or inequality in school.
What is Strain Theory
500
Outer Pulls Inner Pushes External containment Internal containment.
What are the 4 pressures and pulls
500
Rationalizations used to justify delinquent activities
What is Techniques of Neutralization
500
Theory which suggests that broad exposure to violence in the community stresses the ability of parents to protect their children from the pernicious effects of violence
What is Ecological-transactional Model of Community Violence
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