Oscar Lewis, Lower class people form a seperate culture with their own values and norms which sometimes conflict with conventional society.
Cultural Transmission
Cultural norms/values that are passed down from one generation to the next. Like in gangs
Strain Theory
Delinquincy due to being locked out of economic life.
Collective Efficacy
Mutual trust/willingness to intervene in the supervision of children and maintenance of public order.
Differential Association
Sutherland. If the pro delinquency definitions juveniles have learned outweigh the anti delinquency definitions, juve's will be vulnerable to choosing criminal behaviors over conventional ones.
Socialization
Process of learning values and norms of society or subculture that one belongs to.
Anomie
Robert Murton. When normal means to attain goals is blocked, people just take it.
Neutralization Techniques
Sykes and Matza. Techniques used to justify their behavior when it violates accepted social rules/norms.
Labeling Theory
Labeling youths as delinquents, thereby stigmatizing them and encouraging them to accept this as a personal identity.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Deviant behavior patterns that are a response of an earlier labeling experience.
Deinstitutionalization
Removing juve's from adult jails and putting them in community based programs to avoid stigmatization.
Restorative Justice
Non punitive strategies for dealing with juve's that make the justice system a healing process and not a punishment process.
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