“By having them together, they form relationships.” When they are among so many different criminal associations with different behaviors this is more likely to increase the problem plus group experience tends to glamorize delinquency and drug use. The kids give each other more attention and comfort. They are in a competition of who can do the worst. Maia also said that, “Being put on probation, which involves more contact with misbehaving peers.”The source of one’s self esteem is how you stack up with your peer’s. Peer pressure worsens behavior.
Children and adolescents, regardless of their race, gender, culture or economic status appear to be at approximately equal risk for sexual victimization. Statistics show that girls are the gender most subjected to sexual abuse. However, studies have shown that boys, and later, men are more inclined not to report their victimization; perhaps for reason of societal pressure to be proud of their sexual activity (regardless of how unwanted this may have been at the time) proving this crime to be categorized under the abstract theory. So how do we understand the behaviour of an abuser? It is a common place to attach labels to criminals in an attempt to explain and better understand their behaviour through describing them as possessing a certain characteristic trait.
Social learning theorists are very determined to find out if entertainment media are an influence of violence. Feelings and thoughts are what distinguishes one person from another. Some look at criminal behavior as a result of a disturbed personality structure. People who suffer from an anti social personality are often called “Antisocial”, “Psychopath”, and “Sociopath”. Defining characteristics include impulsivity, irresponsibility, risk taking, detachment issues and anti social behavior.
General strain theory identifies various types of delinquent adaptations, including escapist (e.g., drug use), instrumental (e.g., property offences), and retaliatory (e.g., violent offences) outcomes. Coping via illegal behaviour and violence may be especially true for adolescents because of their limited legitimate coping resources, greater influence from peers, and inability to escape many stressful and frustrating environments. Of the various types of negative emotions, anger has been identified as playing the key role in mediating the effect of strain on delinquency and violence. This is the case because anger “increases the individual’s level of felt injury, creates a desire for retaliation/revenge, energizes the individual for action, and lowers inhibitions” (Agnew, 1992: 60). Some studies of the mediating model in general strain theory have focused on anger as the sole intervening factor in the relationship between strain and delinquency.
Greater distress when reacting to others’ emotions iii. Elevated cognitive distortions 4. Sexually abused sex offenders vs. Sexually abused non-offenders i. Offenders were more likely to view their experiences as normal or enjoyable ii. As children did not know the behavior was wrong iii. Behavior progressed into adolescence when offending begins iv.
Shopping malls and other public places are witness areas to watch both genders be defiant while being daring, adventurousness, and enjoyment of loud, rough, and risky activities. Males have a more aggressive attitude than females and fewer time spent in relationships with opposite sex because of the “bonds”, they are establishing with current delinquent male friends. Both of these past issues are results from becoming a delinquent. Female delinquency is less than male delinquency because of morals, harming others, and less violent. According to our text, female delinquency is growing in today’s society from females having biological and psychological traits
Factors are used to group thematically similar behaviors. For instance, persons prone to boredom, whom share a lack of realistic long term plans, live a parasitic lifestyle and act on impulse. persons with a lack of remorse of guilt, failure to accept responsibility for own actions, a lack of sincerity/conning, egocentricity, glibness/superficial charm, drug or alcohol abuse which is not the direct cause of the antisocial behaviour, and callousness or lack of empathy. Factor 3 concerns superficial relationships with others, particularly frequent marital relationships, irresponsible behaviour as a parent, promiscuous sexual relationships, and a lack of affect and emotional depth. Factor 4 has to do with the early appearance of chronic antisocial behaviour.
It refers to patterns of attitudes that are considered to be antisocial and criminal by society at large, but are seen as normal or necessary by the subculture or social environment in which they developed” (Babiak & Hare, 2007, p. 26). In other words, sociopath behavior is a condition of learning and environment. Additionally, a sociopath may have the ability to empathize and have a developed conscience (Babiak & Hare, 2007). On the other hand, a psychopath’s diagnosis may be more neurologically based and are lacking in a conscience. Diagnosing Psychopathy The most frequently used diagnostic tool for determining psychopathy is the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R).
Three major sources of strain: the failure to achieve positively valued goals, the loss of positively valued stimuli, and the presentation of negative stimuli. The first type of strain includes three subtypes: the failure to achieve ideal goals, the failure to achieve all expectations, and the failure to be treated in a just fair manner. agressvive demands of sexual or physical abuse “The delinquent accepts society’s norms that place an importance on the ownership of certain things, but inequalities, such as poverty, prevent their attainment,” therefore turning to life of crime. social disorganization promote crime and include disrupted, dysfunctional and impaired households; ethnic and racial, ; and the development of "deviant" subcultures, even though they specified that such subcultures are not entirely distinct from the conventional-dominant culture but rather deviant in the sense of fostering at least the tolerance of certain behaviors. frustrations or the lack of access to legitimate opportunities happen to create forms of social disorganization.
It is believed that certain traumas and different environments have a great effect on how ones mind develops. If these environments are not emotionally stable, many things could go wrong psychologically. Also it is said less traumatic things, such as smoking while pregnant and substance abuse can cause psychological problems, later on causing criminal behaviors into adult-hood. Anyone being raised around a dysfunctional surrounding is bound to end up with some sort of emotional detachment, could’ve caused them to veer onto the path of committing crimes. Firstly, there are many factors that can exacerbate childhood trauma that will later on cause a person to engage in criminal activity.