4/27/09
SOCIAL LEARNING THEORIES
Means to engage in crime include:
1) Opportunity structures
2) Learning structures
Learning = habits and knowledge that develop as a result of experiences of an individual
entering and adjusting to the environment.
Differential Association
*We learn by our different interactions with different people*
Edwin Sutherland
– IU Sociology – coined the term “white collar crime” (KNOW THIS!)
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Developed as a reaction to strain and sub-cultural theories, which focuses
on acts of certain segments of society.
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Crime’s prevalent in both lower and middle classes – across social
classes.
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A theory of crime must explain both common crime and white-collar crime.
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Influences by symbolic interactionism (Mead).
Tenets of DA:
1. Criminal behavior is learned.
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Not in-born, not predetermined, anyone can learn.
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- Winter '09
- KIPP
- Social Learning Theories, Learning structures Learning
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