CC290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Gabriel Tarde, Social Learning Theory, White-Collar Crime
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A tentative of social learning theory, looking at their environments and how they act, and learning is away that it happens: physical interaction with the environment, meaning making, taking on (moral) values, elements of the environment, social institutions. Explain crime is not in terms to which individuals are exposed (page 35) Decision maker in law, french lawyer, judge, studies of the physical body, understanding of criminology. Learning crime is like a learning trait: criminals can be seen as a professional type, accident at birth, being born in that type of environment. Invention and imitation when it comes to learn crime/ criminality: learning how to speech, express emotions, dynamic variables, phenomena of social life reduced to forms of two fundamental phenomena. Theory of moral responsibility drew on psychology and sociology. 150 years ago, expanded ideas of criminality. Marauding then theft looking at a macro perspective. Individual choice and chances determines if people will be criminal: learning process.
