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Learning Theory/Differential Association Theory by Edwin Sutherland
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In today's Criminology Lecture on Crime Causation Theories, I will discuss the Differential Association (Learning) Theory given by Edwin Sutherland.
It is a learning theory of deviance that was initially proposed by sociologist Edwin Sutherland in 1939 and revised in 1947.
Sutherland’s thinking was influenced by the Chicago School of Sociologists.
He took cues from three sources:
The work of Shaw and McKay, - delinquency in Chicago was distributed geographically
The work of Sellin, Wirth, and Sutherland himself, that crime in modern societies was the result of conflicts between different cultures