2007CCJ- Week 7 Crime and Socialisation

Social Process Theories encompass three different sub-categories. What are they?

• Social Control Theories

• Social Breakdown Theories

• Social Learning Theories

• Social Reaction Theories

A criticism of Social Learning Theories is....

• Assumes that learning criminal learning is caused by committing crime

• It does not account for gender differences in learning

• It does not account for the deviant person's interaction with the wider society

• It assumes that all deviants do not have positive role models

Social Learning Theories differ from the previous content in that it does believe that strain, pathology or other factors can cause crime.

• True

• False

Which of the below is not a reason that there are "differences in associations" between people?

• Frequency

• Duration

• Intensity

• Personal

In Learning Theories it is believed that deviance can be controlled in two ways:

• Consistent Learning

• Corrective Learning

• Proactive Learning

• Preventative Learning

How many principles of of Differential Association are there?

• 4

• 12

• 7

• 9

Which three below are assumption of differential association:

• Learning is a byproduct of interaction.

• Direction of motives learned from definitions of legal codes as favorable or unfavorable

• Principle Learning occurs in Principle Groups

• Learning occurs by living in socially disorganised places

Critical Elements of Social Learning are:

• Family Relations

• Education

• Education

• Media

A key difference between social process theories and trait theories is that trait theories are more positivistic in nature.

• True

• False

Neutralisation Theories suggest that most individuals do not drift back and forth to some degree between normative and “subterranean values

• True

• False