This free course, Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency, will introduce two approaches to understanding juvenile delinquency. The psychological approach focuses on examining what makes some individuals, but not others, behave badly. The sociological approach looks at why some individuals and some behaviours, but not others, are defined as disorderly.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
- 1 Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
- 1.1 Crime and deviance
- 2 Studying the causes of juvenile delinquency
- 2 Studying the causes of juvenile delinquency
- 2.1 Personality/family factors
- 2.1.1 The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire
- 2.2 Evidence for Eysenck’s theory
- 2.3 The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development
- 2.4 Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential theory
- 2.4.1 Strengths and weaknesses of the ICAP theory
- 2.5 Activity: Exploring delinquent behaviour
- 2.6 Summary
- 3 Studying the control of disorder
- 3 Studying the control of disorder
- 3.1 Howard Becker and the turn to control
- 3.2 Labelling and deviance
- 3.3 Agencies of control: being selective
- 3.3.1 Official statistics and self-report studies
- 3.4 Media and moral panics
- 3.4.1 The ‘yob culture’
- 3.5 ‘Society must be protected’: crises and control
- 3.5.1 Police powers
- 3.6 Activity: Mugging and the media
- 3.7 Summary
- 4 Similarities and differences between the approaches
- 4 Similarities and differences between the approaches
- 4.1 The psychological approach
- 4.2 The sociological approach
- 5 Conclusion
- 5 Conclusion
- Glossary
- References
- Acknowledgements
