Social Learning and Social Structure: A General Theory of Crime and Deviance

ISBN-13: 9781412809993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 470 str.

Ronald Akers

Opis

The social learning theory of crime integrates Edwin H. Sutherland's diff erential association theory with behavioral learning theory. It is a widely accepted and applied approaches to criminal and deviant behavior. However, it is also widely misinterpreted, misstated, and misapplied.

Spis treści

1: A Personal History of the Development of Social Learning Theory; 2: Development and Revisions of Differential Association Theory; 3: The Social Learning Theory of Criminal and Deviant Behavior; 4: Social Learning and Cultural Deviance Theory; 5: Research on Social Learning Variables in Crime and Delinquency; 6: Social Learning Variables in Delinquency Prediction; 7: Adolescent Drug and Drinking Behavior: The Boys Town Study; 8: Adolescent Smoking Behavior: The Iowa Study; 9: Elderly Drinking Behavior: The Florida Study; 10: Rape and Sexual Aggression; 11: Other Studies on Social Learning; 12: Social Structure and Social Learning in Crime and Deviance

O autorze

Akers, Ronald