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CJ 340 Criminology
Module 5 Journal
Culture and Behavior
By
Samuel Pacheco
T
here are many things in the criminal justice field that have some type of relationship.
Here we will look at the relationship between culture and criminal behavior. During our time
understanding criminology, it is important to address that culture does not come from just one’s
ethnicity or nation. Cultures usually organize in concepts by asserting ways of understanding
social interaction and setting behavior norms (Staub, 1988). It is explained that many cultural
collective beliefs are how crime is socially determined (Hassan, 2023). It is also explained that
complex and ongoing crime that has been maintained over generations is allowed by the
contradictions in which the society they live in are only norms created through subcultures
(Hassan, 2023). Law spreads out through culture (Temple University, n.d.). Law tends to
influence people to what they know, believing what is true, and what they value...over time,
behavioral norm becomes the legal rule (Temple University, n.d.).
We must understand that subcultures are just social groups that share some
commonalities, beliefs and lifestyles that separate themselves from the norms of known cultures
(Reddy-Best, 2020). Subcultures emerge because they decide to live in a different lifestyle of
have different beliefs to the dominant culture and because the dominant culture does not concur
with their lifestyles, they tend to expand by experience with those that can relate to them. When
we attempt to compare two countries, we must consider that each country has its own set of rules
and values on how to enforce their laws when it comes to criminal behavior. The biggest
difference, as I mentioned earlier, is that the dominant culture will rule over the smaller
subculture groups. Subcultures can find their way to identifying themselves within a culture,
making it obvious that they are different by the way they dress, act, and think. They challenge
new values with that of their own family values (RaisingChildren, 2023). The criminal view of
subculture behavior comes from learned behavior instead of the process of learning such
criminal behavior. In other words, subculture criminal behavior is learned through the actions of
others, it is not taught by the content or a step-by-step process (Black, 2014).
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Staub, E. (1988) The Evolution of Caring and Nonaggressive Persons and Societies.
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Hassan, S. & Lett, M. (2023) Introduction to Criminology.
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
(KPU).
Retrieved November 24, 2023, from
https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/introcrim/chapter/7-7-
cultural-psychology/
Temple University Beasley Scholl of Law Authors (n.d) The Role of Law in Advancing a Culture
of Health.
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https://phlr.org/role-law-advancing-culture-health
Reddy-Best, K. (2020) Dress, Appearance, and Diversity in U.S. Society: 6. Subculture and
Group Membership: What is Subculture?
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November 25, 2023, from
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membership
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