SOC 3710 Lecture 5: SOC3710 - January 26, 2016
26 Jan 2016
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Sociological theories: learning theories, edwin sutherland: differential association. What distinguishes people from each other is that they actually choose to commit criminal. Everyone is born a tabula rasa (i. e. blank slate) Differential association: delinquent behaviour is a learned behaviour. Deviant behaviour is seen as exceptional or something that child wants to engage in: gresham sykes and david matza: neutralization theory. Part of becoming a criminal is not just learning the criminal behaviour, it"s the emotional aspect of it before you commit a crime. Ex. if you are going to break into a bank, high risk crimes. Found this was a large aspect of it. Sykes and matza - did a study on how criminals think. Originally were 5 techniques (now around 21): I. denial of injury: the offender insists that their actions did not cause any harm or damage. Ii. denial of responsibility: offender will propose that they were victims of circumstance or were.
