Summary Forensic Psychology: Differential Association Theory
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Forensics psychology
Institution
AQA
Differential Association Theory from the module of Forensic Psychology has been summarised from the AQA psychology textbook for A LEVEL published by Illuminate Publishing.
Psychological Explanations: Differential Association Theory
The theory proposes that individuals learn the values, attitudes, techniques and motives for criminal
behavior through association and interaction with different people.
Scientific basis
Edwin Sutherland developed a set of scientific principles that could explain all types of
offending- the conditions causing crime, should be present when crime is present, and
absent when crime is absent (1924).
His theory is designed to discriminate between individuals who become criminals and those
who do not, whatever their class or ethnic background.
Crime as a learned behavior
Offending behavior can be acquired through the process of learning.
Interactions with significant others that the child associates with such as family and peer
group.
Criminality arises from 2 factors: learned attitudes towards crime, and the learning of
specific criminal acts.
Pro-criminal attitudes
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