individuals learn the values, attitudes and techniques through interactions with other people
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Who proposed DAT?
Sutherland
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What was the mathematical formula to predict if someone would offend?
if the number of pro-criminal attitudes outweighs the anti-criminal attitudes, they will go on to offend
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What two factors does offending arise from?
criminal attitudes and
specific criminal techniques
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Give an example of a specific criminal technique?
how to hot-wire a car
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How might this explain why reoffending happens?
criminals learn techniques in prison, and put them into practice upon release.
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What research supports DAT?
Farringdon et al.
prospective longitudinal study of 411 boys from deprived area of south London.
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What were the findings of this study?
41% convicted at least once between ages of 10-50.
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What were the important risk factors they found?
family criminality, low school attainment, poverty
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How does DAT shift the focus?
it moves the emphasis away from early biologial accounts eg. Lombroso's atavistic theory, to enviroments that may be more to blame.
Offers more realsitic solution.
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How can DAT be used to explain all offense
Shows that it is not just the lower class.
eg White-collar crime (deviant norms and values of the upper/ middle class)
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What is wrong with the methodology?
Concepts are not testable becasue they are not operationalised.
Hard to measure the number of pro/anti-criminal attitudes someone has been exposed to.
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Card 2
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Who proposed DAT?
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Sutherland
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What was the mathematical formula to predict if someone would offend?
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