Discussion questions for academic study

Parenting plays a finite role in shaping the criminality of children, since parents are their first teachers and can help them distinguish between right and wrong. However, their influence is limited by the fact that people are individuals and do what they want.

There should be mandatory classes for parenting that provide simple overviews on the subject so that people have some sort of objective means upon which to base their parenting. Parenting is a difficult job; most people could use help with it.

The scholarly literature says that differences between these three classes of adolescents exist because money is a determining factor in society, and can provide the basis for a host of other social factors relevant to teenagers and delinquency.

These differences can be reduced by ensuring that representatives from these groups interact with one another regularly in neutral circumstances that do not favor or disfavor any of those groups. It is difficult to find such circumstances, however.

5. The specific delinquency acts that these groups share in common is the tendency to rebel and to test the limits of authority. How they choose to do so, the forms their rebelling takes and the consequences, are shaped by their group.

6. Acts of delinquency of socialites typically involve luxury crimes such as substance abuse. Acts of delinquency for street corner youth involve their death of money and include violence and theft. Acts for intermediaries vary between these two extremes.

7. Each group would likely need different types of control measures even for the acts that are shared in common, because the motivation for those acts and their ramifications for the individuals from each group are so disparate. The socio-economic differences within this society are that pronounced.

8. The important concerns for postmodern theorists is the subject, and the adaptable nature of the subject within what modernists considered a static environment. Postmodernists are concerned with the dynamics at work within the environment that affect the individual.

9. One can argue that California's three strikes law is rooted in postmodern theory. This program contributes to my understanding of criminology by supporting the notion that criminals act in iterations, and those that commit a crime are likely to do so again.

10. The two theories I would pick to address a program form personal and property crime are the broken windows thesis and concentric zone theory. These two theorems reflect the effect that the environment has on the individual who commits crime, which is why I picked them.

11. These theories are compatible in that they both pertain to the environment. They can be integrated easily since they are considering similar points of focus and the relationship between positive or negative environments and crime.

12. The integration of these theories gives them more explanatory power than they have as individuals, especially in the case of negative urban growth because they imply that such negativity can ultimately spiral if not checked appropriately.