Socialization

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person to engage in criminal behavior. Their theory includes nine points that describe this process, all of which relate to the learning of criminal behavior, which comes from . For instance, some of the points are as follows:
"2. Criminal behavior is learned in interaction with other persons in a process of communication.
3. The principal part of the learning of criminal behavior occurs within intimate personal groups.
8. The process of learning criminal behavior by association with criminal and anti- criminal patterns involves all of the mechanisms that are involved in any other learning" (Sutherland and Cressey, 1960:1,2).
In Theoretical Criminology, it is stated that "Burgess and Akers maintain, with Sutherland, that ‘the principal part of the learning of criminal behavior occurs in those groups which comprise the individual's major source of reinforcement'" (Vold, et al., 1998:196).

Social control theory, which is best known through Travis Hirschi, states that ...

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