Choice Theories
1. Classical
Neo-Classical
Deterrence
2. Routine Activities Theory
Deterministic Theories
3. Theological (Demonology)
4. Biological (Phrenology and
Somatotypes)
5. Psychological (Behaviorism and
learning Theory)
6. Sociological (Anomie Theory)
7. (Strain Theory)
8. (Drift)
a) 6th Theory of Causation: Anomie Theory -- Durkheim
b) 7th Theory of Causation: Strain Theory -- Merton --
c) 8th Theory of Causation: Drift Theory -- Sykes and Matza
7th Theory of Causation -- Strain Theory
Strain Theory and principal author: Merton
Five family risk-factors associated with delinquent offenders
1) Inadequate supervision
2) No distinction between right and wrong
3) Unmonitored whereabouts, friends, or activities
4) Erratic discipline, and harshness of discipline
5) Marital discord -- more powerful predictor than just divorce
The “legal” definition and the “behavioral” definition of delinquent
The sources of obtaining statistics on juvenile crime delinquency
Conclusions drawn from different sources between social class offenders
How the “family unit” changed between WWII, and 2010
What a child perceives when he or she is immersed in parental discord
Juvenile-outcomes typically associated with a lack of parental solidarity
Lack of parental solidarity is even more dangerous than divorce
Children living in two parent families --White, Hispanic, and African American households
Children living in two parent families --between 1980 and 2008
Incidence of delinquency in single-parent families -- two biological-parent families