SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Differential Association, John Dillinger, Grand Theft Auto
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John dillinger: experienced convicted robbers friends, then rob bigger banks and did it as a team. If you make new friends you can learn about how to commit a crime without getting caught. Opportunity theory: through interactions and communications with others, opportunities to commit crime or. It is the motivations behind crime that are learned which truly matter the most not the techniques. Outline: differential association theory, differential identification theory, differential reinforcement theory, becoming a marijuana user, differential association theory, 5. Motives and derives are learned from definitions of legal codes that are either favourable and/or unfavourable: need to learn through interaction and communications with others, real physical interaction with others, differential association theory 2. The ratio of favourable to unfavourable definitions of law is what causes crime: how to rob = is the attained knowledge, differential association theory 3, 7.
