CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Main Source, Albert Bandura, Psychopathology

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 104
• Professor: Barry Cartwright

Document Summary

Sutherland"s differential association theory (1942) (from bottom to top) Involves same mechanisms as other types of learning. B. f. skinner set out principals of operant conditioning, operant behaviour and operant extinction in 1953 book, science and human behavior. The main proponents: c. ray jeffery (1965). (cid:862)criminal behaviour and learning theory(cid:863), robert burgess and ronald akers (1966). (cid:862)a differential association-reinforcement. Theory of criminal behaviour(cid:863): ronald akers (1973). And other influences : jeffrey and akers both influenced by b. f. skinner"s operant conditioning, also influenced by sutherland"s differential association, both published their earlier articles as elaboration on sutherland"s claim that criminal behaviour is learned. Reinforcement: with operant conditioning/social learning theory, behaviour is product of reinforcement and punishment, positive reinforcement = reward for desired behaviour, negative reinforcement = not taking something away if individual behaves in desired manner. Negative punishment taking away something they"ve already got.