GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
LEARNING THEORIES
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sutherland’s theory may explain why crime is multigenerational. A longitudinal study beginning in the 1960s found that the best predictor of antisocial and criminal behavior in children was whether their parents had been convicted of a crime (Todd and Jury 1996).
Detailed explanation-2: -Edwin Sutherland, (born August 13, 1883, Gibbon, Nebraska, U.S.-died October 11, 1950, Bloomington, Indiana), American criminologist, best known for his development of the differential association theory of crime.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gottfredson and Hirschi (1990) created a general theory of crime that uses the concept of low self-control to explain the commission of all criminal and analogous behavior.
Detailed explanation-4: -Later, in a systematic study of crimes by corporations, Sutherland offered a formal definition of white-collar crime as “a crime committed by a person of high social status and respectability in the course of his occupation” (Sutherland 1949, p. 9).