1) Complete chapters 7 then submit a 500-900 words minimum answering any 3 of the listed questions in the “Critical Thinking”section found at the end of the chapter. When writing your section, do not quote directly from the reading, and please properly cite your sources using APA, MLA, or Chicago format. Please submit a PDF with your answers on Canvas using the assignment submission section.
1. If criminal behavior is learned, who taught the fi rst
criminal? Have you ever been exposed to pro-crime
defi nitions? How did you handle them? Did they affect
your behavior?
2. Children who do well in school are less likely to commit criminal acts than those who are school failures.
Which element of Hirschi’s theory is supported by the
school failure–delinquency link?
3. Have you ever been given a negative label, and, if so,
did it cause you social harm? How did you lose the
label, or did it become a permanent marker that still
troubles you today?
4. If negative labels are damaging, do positive ones help
insulate children from crime-producing forces in their
environment? Has a positive label ever changed your
life?
5. How would a social process theorist explain the fact
that many children begin offending at an early age and
then desist from crime as they mature? Are you involved in fewer antisocial acts in college than you were
in high school? If so, how do you explain your behavioral changes?
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