CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Learning Theory, Edwin Sutherland, Differential Association
28 Jun 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Sutherland"s differential association theory (1942) -> skinner"s operant conditioning (1953) -> sykes and matza"s techniques of neutralization (1957) -> burgess + akers differential association-reinforcement theory (1966) -> Henry mckay and clifford shaw used the concentric zone model to explain why socially disorganised areas of. Chicago experienced higher rates of delinquency than other areas of the city. Meaning and reality are constructed through social interaction, as well as through the sharing or communication of symbols that take on a significance of their own. Professor at the university of chicago for 5 years. Rejected the notion that crime was cause by criminal type"/"psychopathology". Known for fighting against the characterization of criminals as being feebleminded/psychopathic/being the products of poverty and poor childrearing. Criminals were not substantially different from non-criminals, except that they had learned criminal attitudes, skills, behaviors, in much the same way that other (non-criminal) attitudes, skills, and behaviors were learned.
