CJ511 - Nature of Crime

Module 7 - Social Processes

Readings

• Winfree and Abadinsky - Chapter 7
• Online Reserves

Discussion Topics

	In what situations do peer pressure and modeling lead to criminal behavior. What can we do to minimize the impact of negative peer pressure?
	Can we modify the four factors in Hirschi's model as a prescription to reduce criminal behavior?
	How do we learn? Do we learn both "good" and "bad" behavior through the same processes?
	From whom do we learn?

Module Links

Sutherland's Differential Association Theory

Sutherland's Nine Propositions (review)

http://www.nwmissouri.edu/nwcourses/martin/deviance/diffneut/index.htm

http://www.indiana.edu/~theory/Kip/Edwin.htm

http://www.d.umn.edu/~jhamlin1/sutherland.html

http://people.ne.mediaone.net/dianedemelo/crime/differ.html

Strengths and Weaknesses of Differential Association Theory.

http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/sutherland.html

Sutherland's Legacy

http://csbs.csusb.edu/cjus/course/cj320/chapter5.html

Social Learning Theory

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/crijus/courses/learning.htm

http://web.soc.ufl.edu/faculty/akers.htm

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~sexasslt/arpep/pdfs/sociallearningtheoryadhs.pdf

http://hsc.usf.edu/~kmbrown/Social_Cognitive_Theory_Overview.htm

http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/bandura.htm

http://cooley.libarts.wsu.edu/soc361/social_learning_theory.htm

Differential Identification and Differential Anticipation

http://www.extend.indiana.edu/courses/soc/socs320b/lesson4/DISC4f.HTM

http://www.uncp.edu/home/haga/CRJ367%20Differential%20Identification/index.htm

Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency

http://www.d.umn.edu/~jhamlin1/matza.html

http://people.ne.mediaone.net/dianedemelo/crime/sykes_matza.html

http://www.extend.indiana.edu/courses/soc/socs320b/lesson4/disc4d.htm

http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/matza.htm

http://www.nwmissouri.edu/nwcourses/martin/deviance/diffneut/index.htm

Control Theory

http://people.ne.mediaone.net/dianedemelo/crime/s_control.html

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/crijus/courses/control.htm

http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/303/303CON.html

http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/301/301lect11.htm

Hirschi's Control Theory

http://people.ne.mediaone.net/dianedemelo/crime/hirschi.html

http://faculty.washington.edu/bridges/soc271/lectures/presentation10/index.htm

http://rouncefield.homestead.com/files/a_soc_dev_15.htm

Tittle's Control Balance Theory

http://sasw.chass.ncsu.edu/s&a/ctittle1.html

www.doc.state.ok.us/DOCS/OCJRC/OCJRC97-98/An Application of Control Balance Theory.pdf

A General Theory of Crime or a Limited One?

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/crijus/courses/general.htm

Self-Esteem and Crime

http://www.self-esteem-nase.org/research.shtml

http://www.wm.edu/education/Faculty/Messier/research/self-esteem.html

http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/cjscopy/articles/ward.html

Becoming a Marijuana User

http://www.bks.no/chap4.htm#Learned

http://www.extend.indiana.edu/courses/soc/socs320b/lesson4/disc4e.htm

http://www.umsl.edu/~rkeel/180/theordrg.html#becker

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~haans/misc/inhale.html

http://www.drugtext.org/articles/ericks7.htm

http://www.drugtext.org/articles/maloff1.htm

Differential Association

http://people.ne.mediaone.net/dianedemelo/crime/differ.html

http://www.d.umn.edu/~jhamlin1/sutherland.html

http://www.indiana.edu/~theory/Kip/Edwin.htm

http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/sutherland.html

http://csbs.csusb.edu/cjus/course/cj320/chapter5.html

http://www.nwmissouri.edu/nwcourses/martin/deviance/diffneut/index.htm

http://mulerider.saumag.edu/~milford/crime/da.html

Differential Identification

http://www.extend.indiana.edu/courses/soc/socs320b/lesson4/DISC4f.HTM

http://www.uncp.edu/home/haga/CRJ367%20Differential%20Identification/index.htm