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Psychological Perspectives
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Psychological Perspectives
Social learning theory from the name itself tries to explain how a person’s interaction with society has an impact on self-development. This theory believes in the arrangement of one's personality to be a scholarly response to communal enhancements. Practices and temperaments created in light of defenses and consolation from the individuals around us. Childhood has a very important role in this regard. When people are young, they learn and adopt behaviors and habits accordingly.
Social learning theory was shaped by Albert Bandura, a great psychologist. This theory is adopted and used by many psychologists to understand the criminal behavior of the human mind and deviance. It is a commonly known fact that we are in a phase of continuous learning and people around us have a significant impact on the development of our beliefs and norms. People commit a crime and indulge in criminal activities because the people around them are of felonious minds and they deviate from the normal societal norms (Guntrip, 2018). As an outcome, these individuals come to see crime as rather appealing and reasonable in specific circumstances.
Learning unlawful demeanor is comparable to presuming how to take part in familiarizing conduct: it is completed via an association with or introduction to other individuals. Truth be told, relationship with troublemaking companions is the best indicator of bad conduct other than early wrongdoings. It takes time for a crime to become serious and have a negative deviating nature. Many surveys have concluded that there are three steps of beliefs that favor criminal behaviors. First is the step where small and minute crimes take forms such as bad influence, use of drugs and alcohol, unethical behavior and so no. When these minor crimes become acceptable than other crimes also start becoming usual. This is when a person starts deviating from the society by committing serious crimes.
People will tend to label criminal activities as wrongdoings but in one way or the other, they will justify their felonious actions. Then the third step is where people make or show criminal activities as desirable. They make any such activity thrilling and fun which also harms society. Children are attracted to such activities more and in this regard, they become violent and deviate from the civil society norms. We as humans learn from our gatherings and are always in the state of learning. The norms and beliefs shape our lives and give us the platform to perform our duties positively.
It is a known fact that crimes are being committed at this moment of different scopes and they all cannot be stopped or curbed in an instant. Certain elements are responsible for having a bad influence on the working of the human brain. Social learning theory has its specific limitation which is very logical. People also commit a crime and deviate from the normal walk of life at a later age after they witness a crime being committed by someone they adore or idealize. This is something that makes this theory weak as norms and beliefs cannot be converted or overwhelmed easily.
We learn about our religion, our relatives, our norms right from our childhood and we tend to stay connected with all of them throughout our lives. However, this concept is canceled out by a single behavior of the human mind when a person deviates at a later age. Emotions also play a vital role in these circumstances as through experience they change their behaviors as said by Ronald Akers (Akers, 2013). Our society has been dealing with every type of crime throughout history and it has taken a lot of work from many psychologists to study the mind of a criminal. Dr. Akers has made a huge impact in this regard and answered many of the questions that are related to crime and social deviance.
References
Guntrip, H. (2018). Psychoanalytic theory, therapy and the self. Routledge.
Akers, R. L. (2013). Criminological theories: Introduction and evaluation. Routledge.
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