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Ronald Akers Social Learning Theory

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Ronald L. Akers is criminologist that is widely known for his social learning theory of crime. The social learning theory was created as an extension and reformulation of the differential association theory. Akers attempted to specify the mechanisms and processes through which criminal learning takes place. Akers theory explained how people would learn to engage in criminality. It also Identified operant conditioning and modeling as the key mechanisms. Humans are social beings who learn by observing the behavior of others and the outcomes like reinforcements or punishments associated with that behavior. Social learning theory proposes that delinquent behavior is acquired, repeated, and changed by the same process as conforming behavior. The
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