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| Burgess and Akers expanded differential association and included elements of behavior theory and behavior modification. This expansion allowed them to identify the learning process, and included elements such as operant behavior, repondent conditioning, discriminitive stimuli, and schedules of reinforcement |
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| The process through which and individual rationalizes, evaluates, and assigns right and wrong. |
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| Criminality is basicaly the result of engaging in inappropriate behaviors exhibited by those with whom we interact. |
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| Differential Identification |
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| A modification of differential association theory. In this view, people commit criminal or delinquent acts if they believe that it will lead to acceptance by and approval of these important people in their lives |
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| Differential reinforcement |
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| The concept refers tot he potential rewards and punishemnts for committing or not committing a criminal or deviant act. this process includes a consideration of punishments and rewards that have been received in the past, as well as present and future rewards and punishments |
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| Internal or external factors or cues that aid an individual in determining an appropriate response to a given situation |
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| Behavior modeled by others for an individual may be copied by that individual. Impressions of the individual doing the modeling, along with perceived risks and rewards, will factor into the imitation decision |
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| Refers to an individual escaping something painful such as a punishment or reprimand by committing a certain act |
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| This type of definition helps a person justify committing a crime by making it seem that although the act itself might be wrong, under certain conditions it is all right |
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| The view that voluntary actions and decisions made by an individual are influenced and shpaed by punishments and rewards found in the external world |
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| This refers to an individual recieving something of value for committing a certain act. This may include things such as money, food, or approval |
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| This process is based upon differential assocation and often takes place in a group setting working with both offender s and non-offenders. This concept suggests that the offenders in such groups who join on the side of the non-offenders in attempting to get the other offenders to change their definitions favorable to law violation, actually wind up reducing their own definitions favorable to crime |
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| The exercise of self-control used by and individual to reinforce his or her own behavior, by seeking that behavior through the eyes of another |
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| In general, social learning theory proposes that both criminal and conforming behaviors are acquired, maintained, or changed by the same process of interaction with others. The difference lies in the conforming or deviant direction or balance of the social influences such as reinforcement, values and attitudes, and imitation |
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| This refers to the actual, percieved, expected, tangible, or intangible rewards or punishemnts conveyed upon an individual by society or a subeset of society |
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| Social Structure and Social Learning Model |
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| A model in which social structural factors have an indirect effect on an individuals actions through the social learning process |
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| The process by which two or more individuals share a commonly understood language or set of symbols.. All individuals have the ability to incorporate other peoples reaction into their own behavior and use those reactions as part of their own understanding of themselves |
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