Compare and contrast among social learning, control, and reaction theories According to social learning theory, people learn the techniques and attitudes to support crime from close and intimate...

Compare and contrast among social learning, control, and reaction theories According to social learning theory, people learn the techniques and attitudes to support crime from close and intimate relationships with criminal peers; crime is a learned behavior. Social control theory maintains that people are controlled by their bonds to society Crime occurs when the forces that bind people to society are weakened or broken. At its core, social reaction theory (labeling theory) holds that a criminal career is sustained by social labels and stigma; when significant members ofsociety label them as deviants and criminals, people accept those labels as a personal identity