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- - - - and punishment shout deter people from commenting further crime
    - - criminal justice system today?
        
        innocent until proven guilty
        
        unless its the media which is guilty untill proven innocent
        
        media judges guilt and the public assume they are correct
- - - - links back to caveman
    - - does not take social factors into account
        
        assumes criminals are throw backs and different to rest of society
        
        women who covered up fro ian huntly
        
        demonised by the media
        
        some saw as worse than him
        
        he controlled her
        
        media still send message women who commit crimes that are serious cases are like the devil and not real women
        
        as against there gender nom
        
        same perspective as lombroso
        
        feeds to the public so perspectives have-not changed since 100 years ago
      - completely discredited but still father of criminology
        
        set the ball rolling on scientific explanation for criminology
- - - - will be aggressive so will be more likely to commit crime
    - - to quiet to commit crime ( not true)
  - - - women and crime for exams? ie psychologically inferior
        
        must be something wrong as it goes against gender norms
        
        two women acquitted because they were on their periods so were seen as not in the right frame of mine
        
        assumes pathological answers and biological
        
        implies inferior
      - not all personalities follow the same rather
        
        not all psychopaths are criminals
        
        they do well in business, banking, politics, good trait for these, can do well in life
  - - - females an children reported in a similar way
        
        'kids/women just wouldn't do things like that'
        
        against gender norms, children are innocent
        
        ment, thats just what they do
  - - - an attempt to investigate the psychological effects of perceived power, focusing on the struggle between prisoners and prison guards.
        
        Some participants developed their roles as the guards and enforced authoritarian measures and ultimately subjected some prisoners to psychological torture. Many of the prisoners passively accepted psychological abuse and, by the guards' request, actively harassed other prisoners who tried to stop it. Zimbardo, in his role as the superintendent, allowed abuse to continue.[4][5] Two of the prisoners left mid-experiment, and the whole exercise was abandoned after six days following the objections of graduate student Christina Maslach, whom Zimbardo was dating (and later married).
      - WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PUT GOOD PEOPLE IN AN EVIL PLACE? DOES HUMANITY WIN OVER EVIL, OR DOES EVIL TRIUMPH? THESE ARE SOME OF THE QUESTIONS WE POSED IN THIS DRAMATIC SIMULATION OF PRISON LIFE CONDUCTED IN 1971 AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY.
  - - - led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune that arose in California in the late 1960s. Manson's followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations over a period of five weeks in the middle of 1969
- - - - al coupon epitome of strain theory
        
        triumph of amoral intelligence over morally prescribed 'failure'
        
        when the channels of vertical mobility are closed or narrowed in society which places a high premium on economic affluence and social ascent for all its members
  - - - not everyone in this predicament commits crime
      - what about white collar criminals
        
        strain in a different sense to not achieving the 'american dream' through normal ways so turning to crime
    - - putting the wrong person in prison to please boss by solving a case
  - - - if you where in a bad marriage you got on with it
        
        why didn't they commit crime? particularly if they where abused in any way
- - - - the problem with this is once someone is labelled as a criminal, a person is 'cut off' and becomes and 'outsider'
        
        on solution of being a social outcast is to bond together with those of a like status
        
        reinforces antisocial values and provides partners in crime
  - - - linked to sexual assault - making the victim feel quietly
- - - - assumes criminal subcultural values different from the rest of us