- Created by Edwin Sutherland
-  Crime is a learned behavior through communication through intimate personal groups 
- Legal codes provide motives
- Learning crime is like any other type of learning
- Crime is an expression of needs and values but its not explained by those general needs and values 

Differnetial Association

- Environment and personality prevent people from committing crimes

Social Control Theories Definition

- Interactions between individuals creates crime as a result of learned behaviors

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- Social Structure Theories
- Social Process Theories


Branches of Criminological-Sociological Theory

Schmalleger, F. (2014). Criminology (The Justice Series). Criminology (2nd ed.). Pearson. https://archive.org/details/criminology0000schm. 

Criminology (The Justice Series)

- Informal and formal structures like the economy or families can cause crime through  failures in the system
- Theory states that those with a lower SES have a higher likelihood of committing crime

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