Forensic Psychology - Differential Association Theory Description

Question 1

What does the differential association explanation for offending propose ?

Answer 1

through interaction with others, individuals learn the values, attitudes, techniques, and motives for criminal behaviour.

Question 2

What is the main process behind offending behaviour ?

Answer 2

Learning

Question 3

Criminality arises from what to facts ?

Answer 3

learned attitudes towards crime,

the learning of specific criminal acts.

Question 4

What did Sutherland argue ?

Answer 4

if the number of pro-criminal (for) attitudes the person has, outweighs the number of anti-criminal attitudes, they will go on to offend.

Question 5

Overall what does this theory suggest about predicting crime ?

Answer 5

It suggests that it should be possible to mathematically predict how likely an individual will commit a crime

Need to know ->
Frequency,intensity and duration of which they have been exposed to deviant + non deviant norms + values