What two things are learned through association with criminals, and how important are they, according to Sutherland?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: [key points to be made]
*Techniques: how things are done, like how to carjack or commit a home invasion
*Imitation is the way it is learned; you learn better from those you respect and have intense, frequent, prioritized contacts, and contacts of significant duration
*Definitions are also learned, depend on situation, convey values. These are more important to Sutherland than techniques – these are the drives and the motives, and, like Cressey said, through the vocabulary of motives you learn the rationalizations and justifications involved.
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