CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: George Herbert Mead, Bobo Doll Experiment, Edwin Sutherland
21 Jul 2016
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Criminal behavior is learned through a process of interaction and communication. Criminals learn the techniques for committing crimes and also the motives, drives and rationalizations and attitudes. Individual are exposed to definitions of legal codes as favorable or unfavorable. Which law is acceptable to obey or disobey. The frequency, duration and intensity of differential association will influences criminal behavior. Type of learning that goes into criminal behavior is no different than learning other kinds of behavior. Jeffery"s social learning theory in a more psychological nature. Said that stimulus would be more or less reinforcing depending upon whether you felt satiated or deprived. Not all people have same type of condition experience, people are conditioned differently. Reinforcement lies in the plan and pleasure centers in the brain. People were born with particular biological or psychological characteristics which made up their nature or character. Behaviors are learned through explosure to positive or negative stimuli.
