CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Differential Association, Social Learning Theory, Albert Bandura
15 Apr 2015
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Was a professor at university of chicago for five years. Rejected notion that crime was caused by criminal type or. Said criminal behavior was learned, and that it was the social context that contributed to criminal behavior. Learned in a process of interaction with others. Principal part of learning occurs within intimate personal groups. Learning includes: a) techniques of committing crime, and c) motives, rationalizations, and attitudes. Learn definitions of legal codes as favorable or unfavorable. Become delinquent through excess of definitions favorable to criminal activity. Differential associations may differ in intensity, duration and frequency over time. Involves same mechanisms as other types of learning. Needs and values much the same for delinquents and non- delinquents. Behaviour has its effects by operating on environment or other people. Behaviour learned through operant reinforcement can be unlearned through combination of extinction and reinforcement of alternative behaviors. Ex) to teach dog to sit-give him treat.
