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Lecture 10: Social Learning

Theory; Social Bonding and

Control Theories

Assumptions of Social Learning

Theory

• Approach developed by Albert Bandura

(and others).

• Human behavior is learned, or shaped by

social and physical rewards andpunishments an individual faces in theirlives (innate predispositions

unimportant

)

CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR IS LEARNED...

Not inborn, nor predetermined.

Anyone can learn.

.^

IN INTERACTIONS WITH

OTHERS

, IN A PROCESS OF

COMMUNICATION

Includes gestures.

Verbal interactions.

LEARNING INCLUDES:

Techniques

Motives

Drives

Rationalizations

Attitudes

SPECIFIC DIRECTION OFMOTIVES, DRIVES, ETC. ISLEARNED FROMDEFINITIONS OF LEGALCODES AS FAVORABLE ORUNFAVORABLE

.

Definitions favorable:

Definitions unfavorable:

Fair play

Cheating and shortcuts are

OK

Forgive and forget

I don't get mad, I get even

Good always wins

Sometimes evil wins

Give others a chance

Take advantage of suckers

DIFFERENTIAL ASSOCIATIONMAY VARY IN FREQUENCY,DURATION, PRIORITY, ANDINTENSITY.

Accounts for rates and life- cycle of offending.

WHILE CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR ISAN EXPRESSION OF GENERALNEEDS AND VALUES, IT IS NOTEXPLAINED BY THOSE GENERALNEEDS AND VALUES, SINCENONCRIMINAL BEHAVIOR IS ANEXPRESSION OF THE SAMENEEDS AND VALUES.

Summary of DAT

• Criminal behavior is learned.• Not simply

association

with “bad

individuals,” but

learning

from them.

• How can a researcher measure an excess of

law violating definitions?

CLASSIC CONDITIONING: “two stimuli

become associated by repeated pairing”

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Imitation: "

learning to do an act

from seeing it done

e a r ly

s o c ia l in t e r a c t io n …

im it a t io n