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Lecture 10: Social Learning Theory; Social Bonding and
Control Theories
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Assumptions of Social Learning Theory
• Approach developed by Albert Bandura (and others).
• Human behavior is learned, or shaped by social and physical rewards and punishments an individual faces in their lives (innate predispositions unimportant)
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Edwin Sutherland’s Differential Association Theory
(DAT)• Mainly a processual theory about
how individuals come to commit crimes.
• Also has a structural component because considers macro-levelvariables such as social organization and group conflict.
• Theory outlined in nine statements.
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CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR IS LEARNED. . .
•Not inborn, nor predetermined.•Anyone can learn.
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. . .IN INTERACTIONS WITH OTHERS, IN A PROCESS OF COMMUNICATION
•Includes gestures.•Verbal interactions.
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LEARNING OCCURS WITHIN INTIMATE PERSONAL GROUPS
•Work environments•Peer networks•Media plays little role
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LEARNING INCLUDES:
•Techniques•Motives•Drives•Rationalizations•Attitudes
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SPECIFIC DIRECTION OF MOTIVES, DRIVES, ETC. IS LEARNED FROM DEFINITIONS OF LEGAL CODES AS FAVORABLE OR UNFAVORABLE.
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ONE ENGAGES IN CRIME BECAUSE OF AN EXCESS OF DEFINITIONS FAVORABLE TO LAW VIOLATION OVER DEFINITIONS UNFAVORABLE TO LAW-BREAKING.
•This is the principle of "differential association."
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Definitions favorable: Definitions unfavorable:
Fair play Cheating and shortcuts are OK
Forgive and forget I don't get mad, I get even
Good always wins Sometimes evil wins
Give others a chance Take advantage of suckers
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DIFFERENTIAL ASSOCIATION MAY VARY IN FREQUENCY, DURATION, PRIORITY, AND INTENSITY.
•Accounts for rates and life-cycle of offending.
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LEARNING CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR INVOLVES ALL THE MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN ANY OTHER LEARNING.
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WHILE CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR IS AN EXPRESSION OF GENERAL NEEDS AND VALUES, IT IS NOT EXPLAINED BY THOSE GENERAL NEEDS AND VALUES, SINCE NONCRIMINAL BEHAVIOR IS AN EXPRESSION OF THE SAME NEEDS AND VALUES.
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Summary of DAT
• Criminal behavior is learned.
• Not simply association with “bad individuals,” but learning from them.
• How can a researcher measure an excess of law violating definitions?
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Aker’s Social Learning Theory(SLT)
• An extension of DAT. • Builds on statement 8 in DAT by clarifying
more concretely what are “all the mechanisms of learning” in Sutherland’s theory.
• Considers learning processes such as classical conditioning and imitation
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CLASSIC CONDITIONING: “two stimuli become associated by repeated pairing”
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Imitation: "learning to do an act from seeing it done".
ea r ly so c ia l in te ra c t ion … im ita t ion
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Social Learning Theory cont.
• Theory explains learning and maintenanceof criminal behavior (e.g., constant rewards and punishment encourages burglar to continue to steal).
• Akers relies on four major concepts: differential association, definitions, differential reinforcement, and imitation.
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1.) Differential Association• Similar to Sutherland’s concept.
• Process where individual is exposed to normative definitions favorable or unfavorable to illegal or law-abiding behavior.
• Exposure to families, neighbors, churches, teachers, etc. Most important if associations occur early (priority), occupy a lot of time (duration), occur often (frequency), and are occur among closer relationships (intensity).
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2.) Definitions• Similar to Sutherland’s ideas: Definitions
influence criminality.
• Definitions: one’s attitudes, or meanings that one attaches to given behavior.
• May involve general definitions about legal and social rules and specific definitions that orient people to specific acts.
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1. Denial of responsibility -- It's not my fault; I didn't have a choice2. Denial of injury -- It's no big deal; They have too much money3. Denial of victim -- They had it coming; They had a bad attitude4. Condemnation of the condemners -- Everybody does it; Why me?5. Appeal to higher loyalties -- Only cowards back down; protecting
Neutralizing Definitions
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3.) Differential Reinforcement
• Anticipated or actual rewards and punishments that follow or are the consequence of behavior.
• Social environment reinforces behavior.
• Reinforcers from non-social environment (e.g., drugs and alcohol).
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4.) Imitation
• Engage in behavior after observation of similar behavior.
• More important in the actual acquisition and performance of novel behavior than in the maintenance.
• Example: School shootings?
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Linking Social Structure and Social Learning
Social Structure: society, class, school, race, age, etc
Social Learning
Criminal
Behavior
Non-criminal behavior
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Social Learning Theory and Temporal Sequence
• SLT mainly predicts that delinquency/criminality is a consequence of learning social definitions favorable to crime.
• But it could be that individuals become delinquent first (e.g., as a result of rational choice), and associate with other “deviants” later (e.g., “birds of a feather flock together”).
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Definitions CAUSE criminality
Criminality CAUSES socially and individually learned Definitions
Socially Learned Definitions Favorable to Criminality
Criminality
Experience with criminal acts
Emergence of definitions to
justify/rationalizecriminality
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Temporal Sequence cont.
• Akers argues that SLT does NOT only predict that definitions precede and thus cause criminality. First imitation of behavior without thought of right and wrong, and then possible criminality and retrospective justification.
• HOWEVER, DEVIANT ASSOCIATIONS WILL PROCEDE CRIMINALITY MORE FREQUENTLYTHAN CRIMINALITY PROCEDING DEVIANT ASSOCIATIONS AND DEFINITIONS.
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Empirical Tests and Issue of Temporal Sequence
• Longitudinal studies find support that socially learned definitions develop with differential association with deviants.
• Also evidence that sequence of learning is complex and involves both “feathering and flocking.”
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Empirical Validity of Social Learning Theories
Akers argues that social learning theory has received strong empirical support.
More variance (R squared value) explained in multivariate models testing SLT (31-68%) than other criminological theories such as social bonding theories (15%) and strain theories (5%).
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Policy Implications of SLT: Prevention and Treatment
Programs• If individuals learn criminal definitions, they
should be able to learn non-criminal definitions.
• Behavioral modification programs designed to re-socialize individuals into “normal” lifestyle.
• Assessment of programs gives mixed evidence.
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Social Bonding and Control Theories
Part I: Early Control TheoriesPart II: Social Bonding TheoryPart III: Self-Control Theory
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Assume all people are equally capable of committing crime and would do so if left to their own devices.
•Past Theories ask the Question: Why do people break the law?•Social Control Theories ask the question: Why don't people break the law?
Assumptions of Control Theory
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Motivation vs. Control
• Both control theories and other theories ALL focus on crime and deviance.
• Control theories flip the question about why people conform to rules.
• Some theories stress why individuals are motivated to commit crimes (e.g., rational choice), whereas control theory focuses on what inhibits crime.
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Part I: Early Control Theories
Reiss and Nye (1950s)
• “Personal” Controls: internalized controls where people sanction themselves.
• “Social” Controls: legal and social sanctions external to individual.
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Neutralization and Drift
• Socially learned definitions neutralize moral views to justify crime.
• Categorized as a control theory: If conventional beliefs control deviance, then neutralizing those beliefs represents a weakening of social control.
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Neutralizing Definitions:
1. Denial of responsibility -- It's not my fault; I didn't have a choice2. Denial of injury -- It's no big deal; They have too much money3. Denial of victim -- They had it coming; They had a bad attitude4. Condemnation of the condemners -- Everybody does it; Why me?5. Appeal to higher loyalties -- Only cowards back down; protecting
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Five-Finger Discount
Motives that underlie shoplifting behavior.
• “I wanted the item but didn’t want to pay”• “Peer pressure”• “I steal for a living”• “I wanted the item and could not afford it”• “I don’t know why, it was just an impulse”
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Part II: Hirchi’s Social Bonding Theory (SBT)
• The most well known and tested control theory of crime.
• “deviant/criminal acts result when an individual’s bond to society is weak or broken”
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1.) Attachment to Others
• Self-control is best measured by the concept of attachment to avoid circular reasoning.
• Non-delinquents will have many rich ties with friends, family, and, institutions, whereas delinquents tend to have “cold and brittle” relationships with everyone.
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2.) Commitment
• How much individuals have to gain from conformity to societal rules and to lose from deviance.
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3.) Involvement
• How often, and to what degree an individual engages in conventional activities such as studying, spending time with family, and other prosocial activities.
• One becomes too busy, too preoccupied, or too consumed to get involved in delinquent activities.
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4.) Belief
• Endorsement of general conventional values and social norms, especially the belief that laws and societal rules are morally correct and should be obeyed.
• When these beliefs have been weakened, deviance is a likely result.
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Measures of Social Bonding Concepts
• Attachment: parental supervision, relationship with parents, teachers, friends.
• Commitment: smoking, drinking, and risky activities, as compared to investment in school and job goals.
• Involvement: Activities a person is involve with.• Belief: Respect for law? Respect for social rules?
Endorse neutralizing or conventional values?
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Empirical Validity SBT
• Weak to modest empirical support. • Some studies including Hirchi’s own find
that association with delinquents (e.g., peers or family) increases delinquency. Thus, support for social learning theory
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Part III: Self-Control Theory
• Hirschi revises theory
• Individuals with high self-control will be “substantially less likely at all periods of life to engage in criminal acts.”
• Low self-control thought to be established early on in life as a result of incomplete or ineffective socialization. This research related to the psychological research concerning sociopaths and other types of “opportunists”
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Importance of Individual Socialization
• Impulsivity: act without reflecting upon consequences.
• Insensitivity: individuals miscalculate or devalue the pain of guilt
• Immediate gratification: individual not able or willing to wait for rewards that are delayed (e.g., getting a good job after 7 years of hard work in school).
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Testability of Self-Control Theory
• Tautology or circular reasoning: Problem with measuring low self-control with measures of crime and delinquency.
• Three types of tests.
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Test 1: Correlating Different Types of Delinquency Measures
More serious criminal offenses
All types of risky and deviant behavior
Other measures of self-reported delinquency
Smoking and drinking
DUI arrestsFrequency of drinking
Dependent Variable
Independent Variable
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Test 2: Life-Course and Stability of Deviance/Crime
• Hypothesis: Socialization of traits such as impulsiveness should remain stable through a person’s life. Thus, an individual should not easily age out of crime.
• Findings: Some stability from childhood to adulthood, but likely explained by changing social circumstances rather than changing personality traits.
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Test 3: Predicting Self-Control with Individual Traits
• The problem circularity could be solved if specific traits are measured independent of crime and deviance measures, and are associated with criminality.
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Self-control traits:(Dependent Variable)
Shortsightedness, Inability to Profit, Poor
Judgment, Miscalculation of Pain, Involvement in
CRIME
Predictor traits:(Independent
variable)
Adventuresome, Low IQ, High Activity
Level, Physical Strength
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Policy Implications• Some positive findings by schools; implemented
programs to increase bonding and learning between children and their parents and teachers can reduce delinquency.
• Self-control theories indicate the importance of early life experiences and socialization.
• Is it more effective to be proactive and reduce the causes of criminality, than to try to deter and incapacitate impulsive deviants once they “are created” ?