On the other hand social learning theory takes individual responsivity of crime and places it on other factors, like parents, society and peers. Social learning theory believes that people learn criminal behavior from people around them. It states that people become deviant when they grow up in deviant atmosphere or associate themselves with deviant people. There are total of 9 major elements of social learning theory which I am not going to list at this time. The major difference between social learning and control theory is that social learning theory believes that everyone is born innocent however then introduced to deviant behavior, where control theory is opposite stating that most people are born bad however some able to control their
