CJJ-4010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Learning Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, Differential Association

• School: FSU
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CJJ-4010
• Professor: Keller Sheppard

Document Summary

Criminal offending peaks in late teens to early adulthood. Impulsivity and association with delinquent peers associated with offending. Learning theories argue people learn to engage in delinquent behavior. Differential association- associations=exposure, definitions of delinquency, models of behavior, norms and values, reinforcements. Definitions- attitudes and meanings attached to behavior, approving attitudes: positive, neutralizing, definitions developed/learned in the social process. Differential reinforcement-anticipated rewards and punishments, positive reinforcement can be positive- presenting a positive stimuli(getting a cookie for a good grade), negative- removing an aversive stimuli(no cookie if you fail). Punishment can be direct- presenting an aversive stimuli(probation or a curfew), indirect-removing a positive stimuli(no car) Imitation- acquisition of behavior characteristics of the model, prosocial and delinquent behavior. Biosocial theories- nature and nurture combine to explain crime. Traits conducive to delinquency, but not deterministic. Responses to society learned through social interactions. Certainty- how likely will you be caught. Swiftness- how far out the punishment will take place.