Topic: The student will submit the final paper copy of the paper draft started in Week 3 (D5) and submitted as a draft for review and feedback in Week 5 (D8). The paper should be written in the APA format. The paper should critically analyze the issues and develop evidence-based conclusions concerning the impact of these issues on the police discipline as a whole. Expound on your thoughts with additional links to source materials Guidelines 3 - 5 pages Learning to Commit a Crime NAME CLASS Mr. Richard R. Mello Learning to Commit a Crime Crime, over the years, has been an area of concern for people around the world. People have, therefore, put in resources to try and understand how people learn how to commit crime. One of the theories that have very large support from scholars is the social learning theory. When people are born, they have no perception of crime. Their mind is like a blank page, and anything can be written on them, and they are going to react to it. Children that have been born to parents that are violent and are involved in crime will probably pick up these traits by association, and when they are grown, there is a likely hood that they will be criminals. The other place where people pick up criminal traits is the community. The community where children are brought up could expose them to different situations. Thought this situation exposure, people react either by conforming to the ways of the community or deviating from them. If the community is based on crime then there is a high chance that people will learn how to commit crime. (Greene 2016). Association Theory The other theory is the differential association theory. Human beings are social creatures, and they tend to spend a lot of time with each other. The kind of people a person associates with, therefore, have an effect on how they behave. Social groups change the definition of the things that are right and those that are wrong and the people that associate them conform to these standards. (Greene 2016). Due to such conformity, people are likely to learn how to commit a crime if the social group to which they belong does not find committing crime as unacceptable behaviour. Theses social groups are known to influence behaviour both directly and indirectly. Individuals then go further and engage their own definition of the things they have learned from the social groups. An individual defines them as either desirable or undesirable depending on whether he finds them right or wrong and whether they are justified or unjustified, especially in the community they live in. The way an individual defines the issues could be based on a number of things that include the religious beliefs he has, the morals he has learned from other people. (Greene 2016). Types of Groups The definitions may lead people to conform to the ways of the social group or to deviate from it. people learn to commit crimes through imitation as well. People are always observing what other people are ...

1. Topic: The student will submit the final paper copy of the paper
draft started in Week 3 (D5) and submitted as a draft for review
and feedback in Week 5 (D8). The paper should be written in
the APA format. The paper should critically analyze the issues
and develop evidence-based conclusions concerning the impact
of these issues on the police discipline as a whole. Expound on
your thoughts with additional links to source materials
Guidelines
3 - 5 pages
Learning to Commit a Crime
NAME
CLASS
Mr. Richard R. Mello
Learning to Commit a Crime
Crime, over the years, has been an area of concern for people
around the world. People have, therefore, put in resources to try
and understand how people learn how to commit crime. One of
the theories that have very large support from scholars is the
social learning theory. When people are born, they have no
perception of crime. Their mind is like a blank page, and
anything can be written on them, and they are going to react to
it. Children that have been born to parents that are violent and
are involved in crime will probably pick up these traits by
association, and when they are grown, there is a likely hood that
they will be criminals. The other place where people pick up
criminal traits is the community. The community where children

2. are brought up could expose them to different situations.
Thought this situation exposure, people react either by
conforming to the ways of the community or deviating from
them. If the community is based on crime then there is a high
chance that people will learn how to commit crime. (Greene
2016).
Association Theory
The other theory is the differential association theory. Human
beings are social creatures, and they tend to spend a lot of time
with each other. The kind of people a person associates with,
therefore, have an effect on how they behave. Social groups
change the definition of the things that are right and those that
are wrong and the people that associate them conform to these
standards. (Greene 2016). Due to such conformity, people are
likely to learn how to commit a crime if the social group to
which they belong does not find committing crime as
unacceptable behaviour. Theses social groups are known to
influence behaviour both directly and indirectly. Individuals
then go further and engage their own definition of the things
they have learned from the social groups. An individual defines
them as either desirable or undesirable depending on whether he
finds them right or wrong and whether they are justified or
unjustified, especially in the community they live in. The way
an individual defines the issues could be based on a number of
things that include the religious beliefs he has, the morals he
has learned from other people. (Greene 2016).
Types of Groups
The definitions may lead people to conform to the ways of the
social group or to deviate from it. people learn to commit
crimes through imitation as well. People are always observing
what other people are doing and more often than not they try to
do it. The people who commit crimes live in communities where
people know and see how they do it. In some instances, some
people who have not committed a crime before are likely to
imitate what they do, and they end up learning from them.
Young children that are exposed to the criminal activities of

3. their parents will try to imitate what their parents are doing, and
they end up learning how to commit crimes. (Greene 2016).
References
Carolyn Greene (2016). Ontario. Ministry of children and
community services Review of the Roots of Youth Violence:
Literature Reviews Volume 5, Chapter 8: retrieved on
November 5, 2019,
from http://www.children.gov.on.ca/htdocs/English/professional
s/oyap/roots/volume5/chapter08_social_learning.aspx (Links to
an external site.)