JuvenileDelinquency3
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2007-03-30 15:38
Concepts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Live in Poverty? | 34 million or 12% of Americans |
| Culture of Poverty | 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. |
