SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Differential Association, January 30, Reinforcement

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

Sutherlands 9 propositions (don"t need to memorize, but which is the most important and how they work together: criminal behaviour is learned, criminal behaviour is learned in interaction with other persons in a process of communication. Learning behaviours through interactions with others (friends, family, peer groups) Social component: the principal part of learning criminal behaviour occurs in intimate personal groups. Rationalizations: feel someone owes you : the specific directions of motives and drives are learned from definitions of legal codes as favourable or unfavourable. Wronged your whole life, bad exp. with judges and lawyers. : a person becomes criminal because of an excess of definitions favourable to violation of the law over definitions unfavourable to violation of the law. Just because friends are criminal doesn"t mean you will become criminal, unless you really care what they think etc: differential association varies in terms of frequency, duration, priority, and intensity.