Differential Association

Question 1

Who?

Answer 1

Sutherland

Question 2

basic concept

Answer 2

Individuals learn values, attitudesm techniques, and motives for offendings through interaction with others

Question 3

Who is the interaction with?

Answer 3

people who child values most and spends most time with

Question 4

Learning attitudes

Answer 4

• will be exposed to pro and anti crime attitudes
• the more they are exposed to, the attitude they will then have

Question 5

Learning techniques

Answer 5

Will learn particular techniques for commiting offences if the majority is pro crime

Question 6

Mathmatical predictions

Answer 6

Based on knowledge of frequent, intensity, and duration of exposure

Question 7

Reoffending

Answer 7

Due to prison socialisation
- inmates exposed to pro crime attitudes and learn new techniques from more experiences offenders

Question 8

AO3 + explanatory power

Answer 8

Can explain all offences and suggests that it isn’t just the lower classes who commit them

Question 9

AO3 + shifted focus

Answer 9

from science to a product of individual weakness or immorality
- deviant social circumstances and environment to blame
- more realistic explanation

Question 10

AO3 - not all

Answer 10

Ignores those who were exposed yet decided to not go and commit crimes

Question 11

AO3 - testing difficulties

Answer 11

Concepts cannot be operationalised
- unclear how to measure number of attitudes exposed to so how can we know the trugger point
- lacks scientific credability