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Session Three Wednesday, 4 August 2021

11:59 AM

Neutralisation: 1. Denial of injury 2. Denial of responsibility 3. Denial of victim 4. Condemnation of condemners 5. Appeal to higher loyalties Drift: Most people obey the law most of the time however when law is broken it is usually i break the law are not delinquent all the time. E.g. speeding, underage drinking Social Process Life Course: 1. Life course persistent offenders 2. Adolescence-limited offenders a. Brain development, increase of social ties Learning: • Just as people learn to obey, they can learn to defy • Learn through our relationships and close inner circle (friends, peers, relationships) • We are socialised to learn values Control: • We are naturally anti-social • Focuses on the social and the personal • Explains age differences in delinquency and gender ○ Women are more controlled socially then men • Personal: how you see the law, personal perception, own commitment to the law • Social: social institutions (church, beliefs) Social Structure Cohens subcultural: • Reject the dominant culture • Make up new goals specifically in objection to the dominant culture • Can explain non-utilitarian crimes ○ E.g. Gang related crime Social disorganization: • Environment not the people that are responsible for crime • Supported by transfers from CBD to regional and suburb areas where crime is left in t

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○ Survival crime and petty crime ○ Stealing and Vandalism • Broken window theory: you see a broken window or multiple windows you are more lost in the others, suburbs are manicured and therefore a broken window would draw • High crime areas usually perpetuate high crime • Areas of Social Disorientation ○ Socio-economic disadvantages ○ Population instability ○ Population heterogeneity (everyone is similar) Merton's Strain: • Crime is a social phenomenon • Conformity, ritualism • Succumbing to the capitalist ideologies without acquiring any benefits from it

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