CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Auguste Comte, Cesare Beccaria, Reaction Formation

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 104
• Professor: Barry Cartwright

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Burgeess and akers differential association reinforcement theory ( 1966) Was a prof at uni of chicago 5 years. Reje(cid:272)ted (cid:374)otio(cid:374) that (cid:272)ri(cid:373)e (cid:449)as (cid:272)aused (cid:271)y (cid:862)(cid:272)ri(cid:373)i(cid:374)al type(cid:863) or (cid:862)psy(cid:272)hpathology(cid:863) Said criminal behavior was learned, and that it was the social context that contributed to criminal behavior. Learned in a process of interaction with others. Principal part of learning occurs within intimate personal groups. Learning includes: a) techniques of committing crime, and b) motives, rationalization, and attitudes. Learn defintions of legal codes as favorable or unfavorable. Become delinquent through excess of definitions favorable to criminal activity. Differential associations may differ in intensity, duration and frequency over time. Involves same mechanisms as other types of learning. Needs and values much the same for delinquents and non-delinquents. Set out principles of operant condition, operant behavior and operant extinction in 1953 book, science and human behavior. (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior has its (cid:862)effe(cid:272)ts (cid:271)y (cid:862)operati(cid:374)g(cid:863) o(cid:374) e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t or other people.