Vlad Dracula's Violent Behavior Through Social Learning Theory

Following psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder, I believe that a good way to explain Vlad Dracula’s violent behavior is through social learning theory. Social Learning Theory is the belief that, learning is a cognitive process that occurs through of social contexts, either through observation or instruction, experienced as an adolescent. As I described earlier in this paper, at the age of, either 12 or 13, Dracula, along with his brother Ruda, were both sent to be captives of the Turks as a deal made by their father, Dracul, in order to maintain good relations with the Turks (pg 36). Moreover, while his brother gave in to the Sultan and was released from his captivity to become his protégé, Dracula remained in captivity, which “had …show more content…
Moreover, the violent behavior done to him, and that he was forced to deal out as a pawn of the Sultan, led Dracula to have these characteristics of lacking empathy, violent impulsivity, and antisocial personality All because he was taught this behavior at such an impressionable age.
Body 3: General Strain Theory (2 Pages)
The final theory that I believe would best be associated with Vlad Dracula would be that of Robert Agnew’s General Strain Theory. The General strain theory states that when an individual experiences certain sources of strain they gain emotions of negative affective states, such as anger and frustration, and will develop antisocial behaviors and actions. Moreover, when strain is “high in magnitude, seen as unjust, associated with low social control, and creates some pressure or incentive for criminal coping”, like the strain Dracula felt could be described, it’ll produce violence(http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_218/fulltext.html). Since I believe that Dracula had antisocial personality disorder, this theory would help to explain why he has such