social psychological explanations of criminal behaviours - differential association theory
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- Created on: 18-05-22 15:59
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- differential association theory
- individuals learn the values, attitudes, techniques and motivation for criminal behaviour.
- We often hear the phrase “Got in with a bad crowd”; our friendship groups can profoundly affect criminality especially during adolescence.
- Differential associations (number of contacts with criminals over non-criminals) may vary in frequency, duration, priority and intensity.
- The process of learning criminal behavior by association with criminal and anti-criminal patterns involves all of the mechanisms that are involved in any other learning.
- The principle part of the learning of criminal behavior occurs within intimate personal groups.
- The differential association is a theory proposed by Sutherland in 1939. It explains that people learn to become offenders from their environment.
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