Learning Objectives
- Define anomie and discuss how it is used in various sociological theories to describe causes of crime.
- Provide examples of social process theories and criminality as a learned or culturally transmitted process.
- Discuss how society maintains or elicits social control and criminality as deviance within the context of social control theories.
- Summarize how criminality changes over the life course.
- Identify the connection between sociological mainstream theories and crime policy.