CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Albert Bandura, Main Source, Edwin Sutherland
13 Oct 2016
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The chronological progression: sutherland"s differential association theory 1942, skinner"s operant conditioning 1953, sykes" and matza"s techniques of neutralization 1957, burgess and akers differential association reinforcement theory 1966, aker"s social learning theory 1973. He was a professor at university of chicago for five years. Rejected notion that crime was caused by criminal type or psychopathology. Said criminal behavior was learned, and that it was the social context that contributed to criminal behavior. Symbolic interactionist - learning occurs in peer groups, interaction with others and intimate peer groups. Involves same mechanisms as other types of learning. Set out principles of operant conditioning, operant behavior and operant extinction in 1953 book, science and human behavior. Behavior has its effects by operating on environment or other people. Behavior learned through operant reinforcement can be unlearned through combination of extinction and reinforcement of alternative behaviors.
