Module 8 - Week 9 PASS

Select any and all techniques of neutralisation

• Denial of responsibility

• Denial of criminal behaviour

• Condemnation of the condemners

• Denial of Victim

• Denial of Injury

What question do control theories ask?

• why do people commit crime?

• what makes a person criminal?

• why don't people commit crime?

• what makes a person stay in control?

The laws, police, school, and policies are all examples of

• What makes people more likely to commit crime.

• Informal control.

• Institutions

• Formal control.

The strength of ties to significant others and institutions, can best be identified as which type of social bond?

• Attachement

• Involvement

• Commitment

• Belief

Examples of informal social control include

• Family, friends, moral values, and social interactions.

• An off-duty police officer telling you to stop doing something.

• Police, courts, corrections.

Select any and all types of social bonds.

• Attachement

• Commitment

• Connection

• Belief

• Involvement

What concept states that people must temporarily suspend their commitment to societal values to feel free to commit crimes?

• Informal social control.

• Techniques of neutralisation.

• Moral order.

• Belief.

The major component of 'need for social control' within Hirschi's Social Control Theory observes that...

• Humans are self-interested.

• Rules and norms structure society and promote conformity.

• Behaviour must be regulated for societal benefit (norms, expectations, rules etc.)

• People become 'free' to commit crimes when social bonds are weakened.

The degree of activity (energy and time) available for convention and non conventional behaviour, best defines which type of social bond?

Select any and all potential policy implications for control theories.

• Programs promoting parental supervision.

• Policies focussing on school attachment.

• Rehabilitation programs

• Promoting positive peer influence.

• Encouraging involvement in extra-curricular school activities.