Preparing to Test the Theory I have chosen four scholarly articles that will assist the social learning theory in corresponding to juvenile deviant behavior. These scholarly articles will reflect on the differential association and different reinforcement theories. It will bring forth clarity in a theoretical examiner perspective with evident studies done on the social learning theory in connection with the explanation of juvenile delinquency. There was a study done by the Southern Criminal Justice Association to see if low-self- control and deviant peer associations were tied together. This study would also examine if low- self-control deviant peer association would cause cyber deviance in a youth sample. They also tested to see
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The purpose of this study was to the examine Aker’s social structure social learning theory in connection to heroin use. The hypotheses for this study were,
(1) the study examines whether social structural dimensions have a link with heroin use and (2) the study examines whether the social learning theory process is able to partially mediate the link between the social structural dimensions and heroin use (Holt, T., Bossler, A., & May, D. 2012).
Within the questionnaire the adolescents were asked many questions about themselves and their peers to evaluate the risk and use of heroin. In results to this study, the researchers found out that if the respondents know their peers are using heroin amplify there potential to use heroin. Unlike the other studies, this study came from the Monitoring the Future survey. This study was based on the measurement of the perception of their peer’s behavior. The first results shown that part of class structure connects with heroin use. Second, the results show that social learning theory mediates the effect of social structure measures on heroin use (Holt, T., …show more content…
There was another study that was done by Jason Kissner and David C. Pyrooz of the Department of Criminology, California State University. The data that was used in this study was from a sample of two hundred young jail inmates that was incarcerated in a large California jurisdiction. The purpose of this study was to extend the literature by assessing the relative independent effects on gang membership of differential asocial and self-control measures in terms of both strength and significance (Kissner J., Pyrooz D., 2009). The respondents were asked whether there were any immediate family members in gangs. Based on their responses there were different measures created such as; parental gang memberships and older sibling gang memberships. The dependent variable of this study was: gang membership and the independent variable was: self-control. The results were conclusive because those who reported no gang membership were non-current gang members. In comparison, those who had reported
The purpose of this study was to the examine Aker’s social structure social learning theory in connection to heroin use. The hypotheses for this study were,
(1) the study examines whether social structural dimensions have a link with heroin use and (2) the study examines whether the social learning theory process is able to partially mediate the link between the social structural dimensions and heroin use (Holt, T., Bossler, A., & May, D. 2012).
Within the questionnaire the adolescents were asked many questions about themselves and their peers to evaluate the risk and use of heroin. In results to this study, the researchers found out that if the respondents know their peers are using heroin amplify there potential to use heroin. Unlike the other studies, this study came from the Monitoring the Future survey. This study was based on the measurement of the perception of their peer’s behavior. The first results shown that part of class structure connects with heroin use. Second, the results show that social learning theory mediates the effect of social structure measures on heroin use (Holt, T., …show more content…
There was another study that was done by Jason Kissner and David C. Pyrooz of the Department of Criminology, California State University. The data that was used in this study was from a sample of two hundred young jail inmates that was incarcerated in a large California jurisdiction. The purpose of this study was to extend the literature by assessing the relative independent effects on gang membership of differential asocial and self-control measures in terms of both strength and significance (Kissner J., Pyrooz D., 2009). The respondents were asked whether there were any immediate family members in gangs. Based on their responses there were different measures created such as; parental gang memberships and older sibling gang memberships. The dependent variable of this study was: gang membership and the independent variable was: self-control. The results were conclusive because those who reported no gang membership were non-current gang members. In comparison, those who had reported