1. Differential Association Theory
Sutherland originally came to the University of Chicago as a history major, but soon changed his major to sociology due to the University of Chicago's influence on social environment's factors on a person's behavior (Williams and Mcshane, 2004). ... His concentration was in criminal behavior, but he deemed that it was vital to understand the correlation between a criminal, and the environment he or she lived in (Sutherland, 1939). ... Thomas was also a sociologist from the University of Chicago and believed that "all human beings are a direct product of their environment&qu...
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