individualistic theories of crime-

Question 1

types of theories-

Answer 1

learning theories, psychodynamic theories and psychological.

Question 2

learning theories-

Answer 2

based on the assumption that offending is a set of behaviours that are learned in the same way as other behaviours.

Question 3

Bandura social learning theory-

Answer 3

believes that people learn behaviour by watching it.

Question 4

Bandura’s bobo doll experiment-

Answer 4

tests involving a bobo doll, exposing children to two different adult models, an aggressive one and a non-aggressive. in the models after the children had watched, hey would be placed into a room to see and experiment what they would do to the doll, depending if the adult models were being rewarded and punished for what they did.

Question 5

violence and aggression are produced by…?

Answer 5

an arousal event (provocation)
learned aggressive skills
expected success and rewards
pro-violence values.

Question 6

how do the findings for the bobo doll experiment account for criminality?

Answer 6

criminal behaviour can be learned from observation.
young learners may imitate what they watch, violent movies or family and friends violent behaviour.