CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Main Source, Albert Bandura, Psychopathology
11 Jul 2016
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Was a professor at university of chicago for five years. Rejected notion that crime was caused by criminal type or psychopathology . Said criminal behaviour was learned, and it was social context tat contributed to criminal behaviour. Learned in a process of integration with others. Principal part of learning occurs within intimate personal groups. Learning includes: a) techniques of committing crime, and b) motives, rationalizations, and attitudes. Learn definitions of legal codes as favorables or unfavorable. Become delinquent through excess of definitions favorables 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. Operant conditioning: bf skinner, set out principles of operant conditioning, operant behaviour and operant extinction in 1953 book. Behaviour has its effects by operating on the environment or other people.
