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PHRENOLOGY
study of the shape/size of cranium
LOBROSOS “born criminal”
anatomically identified (sloping forehead, ears of unusual size, etc.)
ATAVISM
reemergence of primitive, genetically inherited traits
SOMATOTYPE THEORY
body types related to criminal behavior (ectomorph, mesomorph, endomorph)
ECTOMORPH
long and lean, little body fat, little muscle; seen as anxious, self conscious
MESOMORPH
muscular appearance, seem intimidating; street crime
ENDOMORPH
friendly, tolerant, comfort-loving, peaceful, good humored; overweight
XYY “supermale”
men with this syndrome were thought to be overly aggressive and lacking empathy; RARE
OTHER TYPES OF CRIMINALS
insane, criminaloids, passion
INSANE
idiots, druggies, moral degenerates
CRIMINALOIDS
project respectable, upright facade in attempt to conceal a criminal personality
PASSION
love, hate, honor
CHARLES GORING
defective intelligence
DEFECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
mental deficiency = greatest source of crime
EARNEST HOOTEN
biological predisposition = deviant behavior; physiologically inferior
EARNEST HOOTEN
“class of hereditary degenerates ruin society and must be brought under control through sterilization, euthanasia, and cutbacks in welfare”
SEPERATING NATURE & NURTURE
genes do not determine criminal acts, but can produce a tendency or inclination towards anti-social behavior
biological factors can influence criminality, interaction of certain genetic components with specific environmental situations
EUGENICS (policy implication)
practice/advocacy of improving human race by selectively mating people with specific desirable hereditary traits
TWIN STUDIES
comparing monozygotic (identical) & dizygotic (fraternal) twins
TWIN STUDIES (FINDINGS)
monozygotic twins have greater urge to commit crime, crimes encoded in DNA???
NEUROLOGICAL FACTORS
differences in frontal lobe exist between criminals & noncriminal groups
PREFRONTAL CORTEX
cognition, attention, impulsivity
MRI & PET SCANS
analyze brain structure and activity
NEUROCHEMICAL MEASURES
low serotonin levels are sometimes linked with impulsive/aggressive behavior
HANS BRUNNER STUDY
“likely that the defect in the gene (MAOA) which causes flawed serotonin metabolism is the cause of intellectual disability and thus the aggressive behavior exhibited in the males”
MAOA GENE
all of us have the gene — some different variation = interaction with crime
MONOAMINE OXIDASE A DEFICIENCY
mutations cause mild intellectual disability and behavior problems i.e., aggressive and violent outbursts
AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
how brain reacts to stimuli
criminals = lower resting heart rate
criminals potentially have low levels of arousal
PRENATAL RISKS LINKED WITH CRIMINALITY
smoking, alcohol, delivery complications, low birth weight
BIOLOGICAL HARMS
prenatal risks, unstable families, environmental factors
LEAD EXPOSURE
serious health/behavior problems; linked to delinquent
FEMALE DELINQUENCY
early onset puberty = criminal behavior
BIOSOCIAL THEORY
environmental and biological risk cause criminal behavior
LIFE-COURSE-PERSISTANT OFFENDING
chronic offenders start early in life
PERSONALITY BASED THEORY
people commit crimes because of certain personality traits
CLASSICAL CONDITIONING
two stimuli repeatedly paired (pavlov’s dog)
AVERSION THERAPY
type of behavior therapy designed to make a patient give up an undesirable habit by causing them to associate it with an unpleasant effect
OPERANT CONDITIONING
reinforcement
POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT
increases target behavior by rewarding
NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT
increase target behavior by removing unpleasant stimulus
PUNISHMENT
reduces odds of target behavior being repeated
OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING
learning through observation (bobo doll)
COGNITIVE STRUCTURE
how people think — what we don’t think leads to trouble
COGNITIVE CONTENT
what people think — what we do think leads to trouble
DEFENSE MECHANISMS (FREUD)
used to reduce anxiety
TYPES OF DEFENSE MECHANISMS
repression, rationalization, denial, projection
3 ELEMENTS OF PERSONALITY (FREUD)
id, ego, superego
ID
“if it feels good, do it”
SUPEREGO
conscience — “stealing is wrong”
EGO
decision making component of personality
“psychological thermostat that regulates wishes of the id w/ social restriction of superego”
TELLEGEN AND WALLER (1987)
5 factor model of personality
5 FACTOR MODEL OF PERSONALITY
extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, openness to experience
EXTRAVERSION
talkative, energetic, outgoing
AGREEABLENESS
putting others needs before their own
CONSCIENTIOUSNESS
careful and diligent
NEUROTICISM
sadness, moodiness, emotional instability
OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE
intellectually curious, appreciative of art, sensitive to beauty, aware of feelings
MPQ
multidimensional personality questionnaire
CONSTRAINT
traditionalism, harm avoidance, control
NEGATIVE EMOTIONALLY
aggression, alienation, stress reaction
POSITIVE EMOTIONALLY
achievement, social potency, well-being, social closeness
PSYCHOPATHY
“criminal personality”
one of the oldest concepts in criminology
PSYCHOPATHY FEATURES
manipulative, superficial charm, smarter, no anxiety, no remorse, no emotional depth, trivial sex life, untruthful, antisocial
SOCIAL STRUCTURE THEORY (EMILE DURKHEIM)
deviance exists in all societies, needed to establish moral boundaries and to distinguish between those who obey and those who disobey societies rules
DURKHEIM’S LEGACY
human nature = selfish and insatiable; need to cap/control
rabidly changing society “industrial prosperity” — anomie (norms are weakened — the anomie/strain theory/tradition
ANOMIE
lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual/group; condition whereby exerts pressure on the individual to achieve culturally define goals but doesn’t provide resources
ANOMIE/STRAIN THEORY
anomie produces strain
crime results from economic and other problems in how society is structured and from poverty and other problems in neighborhoods
CHICAGO SCHOOL (1930s)
the idea that crime was caused by individual biological genetic control shifted to idea that crime was a result of social factors
tied to Durkheim: city/societal growth
worry over lack of integration and control
PARK AND BURGESS (1925)
concentric zones
residential zone (largest)
zone in transition (middle)
industrial zone (smallest)
WHY DOES MOST CRIME HAPPEN IN TRANSITIONAL ZONE?
experiences most anomie — discrimination, causing struggle to adapt to stresses and demands of new society
SHAW AND MCKAY
juvenile delinquency in urban areas (1942)
disorganization of the community is a contributing factor to crime
SHAW AND MCKAY IMPLICATIONS
stable, despite multiple waves of immigrants
only certain areas of the city (why??)
physical dilapidation, poverty, and higher levels of ethnic and cultural mixing — in common with areas w/ high crime rates
THE OG SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION THEORY (1960-80)
ecological factors that lead to high crime in communities = high school dropouts, unemployment, deteriorating infrastructures, single-parent homes
CRITICISMS OF SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION
use of “official data” (police bias)
are the neighborhoods really disorganized???
can’t measure intervening variables
chicago specific (not all cities have rings)
SAMPSON AND COLLEAUGES
their version of disorganization — blacks constitute large proportion of current members in “zone in transition”
COLLECTIVE EFFICACY (SAMPSON AND COLLEAUGES)
willingness to exercise control and willingness to help each other — lack of collective efficacy increases crime rates
COGNITIVE LANDSCAPE (SAMPSON AND COLLEAUGES)
when violence is a regular part of reality, t seems more “normal” as a response
W.J. WILSON AND THE “TRULY DISADVANTAGED”
race and poverty in the United States
CULTURAL ISOLATION
reduced access to own culture group — no contact with “mainstream individuals/institutions
ANDERSON CODE OF THE STREETS
decency, violence, and moral life of inner city
respect & disrespect
RESPECT
being treated right or granted the deference one deserves
DISRESPECT
not being treated right or granted the deference one deserves
MERTON — STRAIN THEORY
institutional norms are weakened in societies that place intense value on economic success
“when an individual has a goal and the legitimate means of achieving it are blocked, they’re under pressure to resort to illegitimate means to achieve the goal”
The American Dream
CRITICISMS OF MERTON’S STRAIN THEORY
weak empirical support
why do people “adapt” differently?
can’t explain “expressive” crimes
is crime a lower class phenomena?????
AGNEW: GENERAL STRAIN THEORY
3 sources of strain
failure to achieve valued goals
removal of valued stimuli
can’t escape noxious stimuli
STRAIN
negative affective states
anger, fear, frustration, depression
charge or motivate towards crime
in lieu of “coping mechanisms”, anger and frustration can produce delinquency
coping can be “behavioral” or “cognitive”
MESSNER & ROSENFELD
social institutions as building blocks of society
economy, polity, family, education
KEY ISSUES - MESSNER AND ROSENFELD
the institutions sometimes have conflicting goals and values
all societies can therefore be chracterized by their distinctive arrangements of institutions
the US economy dominates “market society”
THE AMERICAN DREAM CAUSES ANOMIE
SOCIAL PROCESS THEORIES
focuses on crime that unfolds over time (through a process)
how individuals interact with environment
process of socialization
SUTHERLANDS DIFFERENCIAL ASSOCIATION
disputed the term “social organization”
asks a “chicago school” question based on shaw and mckay theory
criminal behavior is learned
learning involves techniques and attitudes
vague concepts and phrasings
difficult to test empirically
TECHNIQUES OF NEUTRALIZATION (SYKES AND MATZA)
denial of responsibility
denial of injury
condemnation of the condements
appeal to higher loyalties
RONALD AKERS SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY
early version — differential reinforcement
revision of differential association theory
added concepts of operant conditioning & imitation to explain how behavior was learned
4 ELEMENTS IN THEORY
differential association
definitions
differential reinforcement
imitation
TYPES OF CONTROL
direct — direct punishments, rewards from parents, friends
indirect — refrain from deviance because you don’t want to risk friends, job, etc
internal — good self-concept, self-control, coscience
HIRSHIS SOCIAL BOND THEORY
bond indicates “indirect control”
attachment (emotional)
commitment (rational)
involvement (opportunity)
belief in validity of law
GOTTFREDSON & HIRSHI (1990)
theory of self-control
internal control result of direct control from parents
explains all crime and analogous behaviors
ANALOGOUS
same nature as criminal acts
SAMPSON AND LAUBS AGE GRADED THEORY
take hirshis 1969 theory and made it age graded
KEY CONCEPTS IN ADULTHOOD IS ADULT SOCIAL BONDS
quality marriage, job, military service, different targets for different ages, importance of adult bonds
BASIC LABELING PROCESS
tannenbam, lemert, and becker