Behaviourism AO3

• +Crime often runs in families; this implies that families ‘teach’ criminality in their members.
• +Attitudes of work groups can normalise white collar crime.
• +It can explain cultural differences in deviance and criminal behaviour.
• +It has a clear basis in well understood and scientific behavioural theory.
• -Learning theories are determinist, as they suggest that people have no control over the learning process.
• -Not everyone has been exposed to criminal influences becomes criminal.
• -The theory rests on operant conditioning, which is based primarily on animal researc. Humans are more complex.