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LaDunn

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on: Aug 12, 2018
Social control theory suggests that
 
  a. crime occurs when the forces that bind people to society are weakened or broken.
  b. only males have significant potential to become criminals.
 c. crime is a learned behavior.
 d. people become criminals when significant members of society label them as such.

Question 2

Identify and discuss four factors that affect chronic delinquency.
 
  What will be an ideal response?


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strudel15

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Reply #1 on: Aug 12, 2018
Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

Individual Factors
 Early antisocial behavior
 Emotional factors, such as high behavioral activation and low behavioral inhibition
 Poor cognitive development
 Low intelligence
 Hyperactivity

School and Community Factors
 Failure to bond to school
 Poor academic performance
 Low academic aspirations
 Living in a poor family
 Neighborhood disadvantage
 Disorganized neighborhoods
 Concentration of delinquent peer groups
 Access to weapons

Family Factors
 Parenting
 Maltreatment
 Family violence
 Divorce
 Parental psychopathology
 Familial antisocial behaviors
 Teenage parenthood
 Family structure
 Large family size

Peer Factors
 Association with deviant peers
 Peer rejection


LaDunn

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Reply 2 on: Aug 12, 2018
Excellent

DylanD1323

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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