SOC 2700 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Differential Association, Behaviorism, Social Disorganization Theory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

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It has been frequently tested and is endorsed by many criminologists. Utherla(cid:374)d"s differe(cid:374)tial associatio(cid:374) theor(cid:455: sutherland is the most important criminologist of the 20th c. was huge in professional theft (1937) and white-collar crime (1949. ) Criminal behaviour is learned in interaction with other people. The principle part of the learning of cb occurs in personal groups. The learning includes a) techniques of committing the crime, and can be very complicated or simple b) specific directions of motives drives, rationalizations and attitudes. Specific direction of motives and drives is learned from definitions of legal codes as favourable and unfavourable. Someone becomes delinquent because of an excess of favourable to violation of law over definitions unfavourable to violation of law. Differential associations may vary in frequency, duration, priority, and intensity. The process of learning cb by association with criminal and anticriminal patterns involves mechanisms involved in other learning ways. Development of the theory: slt is not competitive with dat.