CRI205H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Social Learning Theory, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, General Strain Theory
9 May 2017
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Social learning, sexual and physical abuse and adult. Crime felson: research shows that children have been physically and sexually abused are more likely commit violent offenses as adults than children who have not been victimized. These children are also more likely to commit sexual offenses as adolescents or adults. According to social learning theory individuals learn in part, by observing the behaviors of others. Vicarious learning is more likely went either the model or observer is rewarded, but it can occur without favorable consequences. According to this argument some children learn to do what has been done to them ( as well as what they witness). The child victims later becomes the perpetrator resulting in what has been called the intergenerational transmission of violence. Neither theory nor research has paid much attention to what behaviors children model when they have been abused. Bandura 1978 suggest that behavior modeled is often the same as the behavior observed.
