CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Symbolic Interactionism, Reinforcement, Albert Bandura
11 Dec 2015
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Syes and matza"s techniques of neutralization (1957) 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 was a social context that contributed to criminal behaviour. Learned in a process of interaction with others. Principal part of learning occurs within intimate personal groups (close peer network) Learning includes: techniques of committing crime, motives, rationalizations, and attitudes. Learn definitions of legal codes as favourable or unfavourable. Become delinquent through excess of definitions favourable 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 behaviour. Behaviour learned through the law of effect.
