1. Criminology and Social Learning Theories
According to their theory, the same process occurs to adolescents who conform to society's norms and to those who resist them, meaning that social learning theory seeks to not only explain reasons for deviance, but also reasons for non-deviance. ... Akers and Burgess's third mechanism of the social learning process is imitation. ... Along with Lee, Akers used data from a longitudinal study of 454 secondary school students in Muscatine, Iowa in the form of a self-report survey. ... To test these hypotheses, the researchers collected data from 585 students attending two "medium si...
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