CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Symbolic Interactionism, Psychopathology, Watching Movies
24 Feb 2013
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The chronological progression: sutherland"s differential association theory (1942, skinner"s operant conditioning (1953, sykes and matza"s techniques of neutralization (1957, burgess and akers differential association-differentiation theory (1966, akers" social learning theory (1973) 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 that it was the social context that contributed to criminal behaviour. Learned in a process of interaction with others. Principal part of learning occurs within intimate personal groups. Learning includes: a) techniques of committing crime, b) motives, rationalizations, and attitudes. Learn definitions of legal codes as favorable or unfavorable. Become delinquent through excess of definitions favorable to criminal activity. Differential associations may differ in intensity, duration and frequency over time. Needs and values much the same for delinquents and non-delinquents. Involves same mechanisms as other types of learning.
