[SOCI 388] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (73 pages long)
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It is now largely agreed that delinquent behavior, like most social behavior, is learned and that it is learned in the process of social interaction. Sutherland"s theory of differential association, which asserts that criminal or delinquent behavior involves the learning of (a) techniques of committing crimes and (b) motives, drives, rationalizations, and attitudes favorable to the violation of law. The single strongest school of thought on the nature of this content has centered on the idea of a delinquent sub-culture. The basic characteristic of the deliquent sub-culture, it is argued, is a system of values that represents an inversion of the values held by respectable, law-abiding society. Cohen systematically examines the function of delinquent values as a viable solution to the lower-class, male child"s problems in the area of social status. Issues with viewing delinquent behavior as springing from a set of deviant values and norms :
