Differential association

• Time spent with certain people with certain views
• influence personal opinion- spend more time = stronger opinion
• Opposed or for crime

  Directional. one outweigh the other
• Learned not inherited, through association with intimate personal group.

  through techniques, motives, drives and rationalisation and attitudes same as other behaviours
• What crime is desirable
• Shift from blaming individual factors to social factors
• Wider community influence
• Role models
• Social norms in group
• White collar crime- committed to firm, respectable high status individuals. Transgression against law
• Osborn + West - 40% sons committed crime by 18 had fathers with criminal conviction. 13% non-crimianl dads
• Akers- influence of peers, imitation study drinking and drug use- 68% of marijuana use, 55% alcohol use
• Criminals seeking other criminals
• Newburn- 40% offences are by people under 21 why? Eysenck