(Criminological Theories, Akers, pg.72) To a lay person, I see differential association in the terms of someone being a product of his/her environment. ... (Criminology, 4 Nov. 1999) The social bond that ties a population together, makes the population, therefore suggesting that a common person who is brought up to be a law abiding citizen with exceptional parenting, will also become a law abiding citizen and good person thereof. ... According to Coswell and Vowell, (Criminology, 4 Nov. 1999), there has been an extensive breakdown between the correlation between differential association an...

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Lawrence Kohlberg applied the concept of moral development to issues in criminology. ... Not a single theory, whether it be a sociological, psychological, environmental , or criminological can solely explain the phenomenon of delinquent behaviors. ...

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Social Control Theories take a sort of opposite approach from other theories in criminology. They start by asking why most people do not commit crimes rather then why they do commit them. They focus on restraining or controlling factors that are broken or missing inside the personalities of criminal...

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Control theories make a little more sense to me. Reckless" containment theory says there are predispositions that make people commit crimes. He uses the terms pushes and pulls. Pushes can come from troubled psyches, or stressful circumstances outside the individual, whereas pulls can be from family, friends, etc. His point is however that these pushes and ulls are not evenly distributed between society. ...

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