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An indispensable international resource, The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Theory provides readers with a clear overview of criminological theory, enabling them to reflect critically upon the traditional, emergent and desirable theoretical positions of the discipline.This handbook is essential for libraries and scholars of all levels studying the rapidly developing, interdisciplinary field of criminology.
Social Learning Theory: Process and Structure in Criminal and Deviant Behavior
Social Learning Theory: Process and Structure in Criminal and Deviant Behavior
Brief Overview of Social Learning Theory of Crime and Deviance
Ronald L. Akers’ social learning theory as a general explanation of criminal and deviant behavior was first proposed with Robert L. Burgess (Burgess and Akers, 1966) integrating Sutherland's (1947) sociological theory of differential association with principles of psychological behaviorism (Skinner, 1953).
Burgess and Akers … retained the concepts of differential association and definitions from Sutherland's theory, but conceptualized them in more ...
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