Emotion and Crime

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The paper looks at how emotion has been a largely avoided causal attribute in the study of deviance and especially in transgressive behaviors that are criminally defined. This is largely because such soft attributes as emotion are difficult to quantify and even more difficult to measure. In a recent research study, the paper explains how Redmon attempts to correct this omission by redefining the concept of emotion in terms that sociology can both measure and quantify.

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"Low self-control is not the propensity or motivating force underlying criminal acts, rather it is the barrier that stands between the actor and the obvious momentary benefits of crime and deviance" (376). In other words, Redmon is attempting to redefine the very concept of emotionality in terms that social scientists can better appreciate as a contributing force to deviance.

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