Which of the Criminological Theories of crime causation explains Daphnes delinquency? Explain your position.
Fourteen year old Daphne, a product of New York Citys best private schools, lives with her wealthy family in a luxury condo in a fashionable neighborhood. Her father is an executive at a local financial services conglomerate and earns close to a million dollars per year. Daphne is always in trouble at school, and teachers report she is impulsive and has poor self-control. At times she can be kind and warm, but on other occasions she is obnoxious, unpredictable, insecure, and demanding of attention. She is overly self-conscious about her body and has a drinking problem. Despite repeated promises to get her life together, Daphne likes to hang out at night in a local park, drinking with the neighborhood kids. On more than one occasion, she has gone to the park with
her friend and confidant, Chris, a quiet boy with his own personal problems. His parents have separated and he is prone to suffer from severe anxiety attacks. He has been suspended from school and diagnosed with depression for which he takes two drugs- an antidepressant and a sedative. One night, the two met up with Michael, a 44 year old with a long history of alcoholism. After a night of drinking, a fight broke out and Michael was stabbed, his throat cut, and his body dumped in a pond. Soon after the attack, Daphne called 911, telling the police that a friend jumped in the lake and didnt come out. Police searched the area and found Michaels slashed and stabbed body in the water; the body had been disemboweled in an attempt to sink it. When the authorities traced the call, Daphne was arrested, and she confessed to police that she had helped Chris murder the victim.