1. The Differential Theory and Criminal Behavior
... as a set of nine propositions, which introduced three concepts normative conflict, differential association and differential group organization that explain crime at the levels of the society, the individual and the group[Cre60]. Fundamentally the theory maintains that deviant manners are learnable and be learned through interactions with people with deviant behaviors. Accordingly to Sutherland, these associations ... specific crime and specific motives, attitudes, rationalizations and drives; this implies that learning deviant behavior entails several dissimilar dimensions of criminali...
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