CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Determinism
23 Feb 2014
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Nine tenets of differntial association: criminal behavior is learned, it is learned in process of interaction with others, principal part of learning occurs within intimate personal groups, learning includes: a) techniques of committing crime, and b) motives, rationalizations, and attitudes, individuals learn definitions of legal codes as favorable or unfavorable, individuals become delinquent through an excess of definitions favorable to criminal activity, differential associations may differ in intensity, duration, priority and, criminal learning involves same mechanisms as other types of frequency over time learning, needs and values are much same for delinquents and non delinquents. Six major concerns law: trouble (getting into trouble with law, staying out of trouble from, toughness (providing that you are strong/ brave, smartness (ability to outwit/ take advantage of others, and avoid being taken advantage of yourself, excitement (risk taking, thrill seeking, fate (having good luck, blaming failure on bad luck, autonomy (resentment of controls/ restrictions)
