LECTURE 12: CONTROL THEORY, CONFLICT PERSPECTIVES, THEORETICAL INTEGRATION
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Falsification of Theory
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Test assumptions of theory with empirical research. Theories making prediction inconsistent with data are falsified.
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Theoretical Integration
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Draw from different theories to create more encompassing theory (new model showing relationships among variables). Can also draw on a theme common to several theories.
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Elliott
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Bringing all theories to explain more about deviance and delinquency.
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Hirschi
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Argued against integration pointing out that theories are contradictory and their assumptions are incompatible. Keeping the theories separate.
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Bernard and Snipes
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1. Criminologists should focus on variables rather than on the theories themselves.
2. Criminologist theories should be evaluated in their usefulness to the scientific process not in terms of their validity.
3. Criminologist researchers should shift from trying to falsify theories to …
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Interactional Theory
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Blends social control and social learning perspectives. Assumes human behavior occurs in social interaction.
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Reciprocal Effects
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Interactive system where the behavior of others are affected by the delinquent behavior of the adolescent (contrasts with unidirectional effects).
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Interactional Theory: Evidence
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Not a lot; model very complex.
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Social Support
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Cullen. The perceived or actual instrumental or expressive provisions supplied by the community, social networks, and confiding partners.
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Vold
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Group conflict and Political organization.
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Democratic Society
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Interest groups attempt to secure their own interests by lobbying the legislature to enact laws in its favor.
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Criminalization
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Involves the process of focusing on and making certain acts as criminal. Has to do with relations of power. Greatest when there is power and balance in society.
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Carrier's Case
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Wool and cloth-valuable commodities.
The power changes the law to find the bailee guilty.
Bailee's interests not represented in law.
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