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Title: According To Social Psychologists, How Do Victim, Offender And Third-party Interactions Impact Upon Criminal Outcomes?
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ACCORDING TO SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGISTS, HOW DO VICTIM, OFFENDER AND THIRD-PARTY INTERACTIONS IMPACT
UPON CRIMINAL OUTCOMES?
During the late 1940s, Sutherland (1947) advanced that explanations of crime and deviance are of either a situational or a dispositional nature. Additionally, he argued that of the two explanations, situational ones might be of the most importance. Hirschi & Gottfredson (1986) made a critical distinction in light of this issue, the distinction was between the terms crime and criminality. Crime, they proposed refers to "˜events that presuppose a set of necessary conditions'. Criminality on the other hand refers to "˜stable differences across individuals in the propensity to commit criminal acts' (Hirschi & Gottfredson, 1986: 58). They went on to ...
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