Explain the different forms social learning theory has taken Differential association theory was formulated by Edwin Sutherland. It holds that criminality is a result of a person's perceiving an...

Explain the different forms social learning theory has taken Differential association theory was formulated by Edwin Sutherland. It holds that criminality is a result of a person's perceiving an excess of definitions in favor of crime. Gresham Sykes and David Matza created the theory of neutralization, which stresses that youths learn mental techniques that enable them to overcome societal values and drift into delinquency Ronald Akers has posed a behavioral version of social learning called differential reinforcement theory