CRMN 2850U Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Edwin Sutherland, Tabula Rasa, Differential Association
31 Mar 2018
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Take place/ focus at the micro- level (individual level: contrast this with the social structural theories: Take place at the macro-level (bigger level) Interaction significant others (people who are close to us) Sutherland"s theory of differential association: edwin sutherland 1930"s. How criminal values could be culturally transmitted to individuals from their significant others (tibbetts and hemmens, 438) Nine principles: notion: criminal behavior is learned just like anything else. By social interaction not movies, books. Cant learn how to rob a bank by watching a movie on robbing a bank. Have to actually go to the basketball court and play to learn: criminal behavior today is taken for granted. Time of writing unique and profound: positivist. No allowance for free will or rational decision making. More information in favour of crime then crime was unescapable. Choice to commit crime was determined through social interaction.
