Edwin H. Sutherland on Differential Association

Edwin H. Sutherland (born August 13, 1883, Gibbon, Nebraska, U.S. died October 11, 1950, Bloomington, Indiana) was an American sociologist. He is considered as one of the most influential criminologists of the twentieth century. He was a sociologist of the symbolic interactionist school of thought and is best known for defining differential association which is a general theory of crime and delinquency that explains how deviants come to learn the motivations and the technical knowledge for deviant or criminal activity. Sutherland earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1913.

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• Edwin Sutherland
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• symbolic interactionism
• criminology
• white-collar crime
• delinquency
• criminality

[mexmas93]

A good critic of this theory is that how dis the first criminal become a criminal....and also many people who are exposed to these excess difinitions do not commit crimes

[enroserie]

This is great! Really helpful! 

[MsJumbox]

thank you for this video... helped me understand more about the theory while studying for my exams

[molyons1]

excellent video! keep'em coming

[tpdhjones]

Good job do you have any more?