RT Article
T1 “The incommensurability of Matza’s theory of drift with a sense of injustice in juvenile delinquents”
JF Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology
VO 15
SP 1
OP 16
A1 Shon, Phillip Chong Ho 19XX-
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1866656287
AB The word ‘drift’ is used in criminology primarily as a verb, to indicate movement from a state of nonoffending to offending and vice versa. However, Matza intended and used the word ‘drift’ as a noun, a consequence of being pushed and pulled by forces extraneous to the self which creates the condition of an effect similar to anomie. In this paper, I reinterpret Matza’s theory of drift and argue that his sociological theory of delinquency presupposes a psychological theory of personality in a way that replicates the Glueck-Sutherland debate of the 1940s by professing the salience of social factors while assuming the primacy of psychological processes. I argue that Matza’s sociological argument is incommensurate with the particular psychology of personality formation that his theory presupposes. I provide an alternative account of how anger that precedes delinquency is formed in the personalities of offenders using Alfred Adler’s Individual Psychology.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 12-16
K1 David Matza
K1 Theory of Drift
K1 Deep Anger
K1 Negative Emotionality
K1 Alfred Adler