Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Neither Burgess and Aker’s model nor Sutherland’s theory addresses the idea that delinquent associations could occur after criminal activity takes place.
2. Control theories focus on social or personal factors that explain how and why individuals learn criminal behavior.
3. Learning theories believe that individuals enter the world with a blank slate, or tabula rasa.
4. Sutherland’s differential association theory is hard to test because it uses too many different types of learning models.
5. Nonsocial reinforcement is considered self-reinforcement


1. False
2. False
3. True
4. False
5. True

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