SOCI 2445 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Control Theory, Restorative Justice, Self-Control
15 Mar 2016
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Criminal behavior is learned in interaction with other individuals in a process of communication. (peers) The principle part of learning criminal behavior occurs within intimate personal groups. (friends not strangers) Criminal behavior is learned sutherland states that the learning includes the technique of committing the crime which are sometimes very difficult or very simple and the specific direction of motives, drives rationalization and attitudes. Differential associations with the world may vary in frequency duration priority and intensity (sometime you will have stronger reasons to motive you to violate the law) The process of learning criminal behavior by association with criminal and anti-criminal patterns involves all of the mechanisms that are involved in any other learning. While criminal behavior is an expression of general needs and values cannot be explained by those same general needs and values since non criminal behavior is an expression of those same general needs and values.
