What is Sutherlands Theory based on in sociology? What did they believe?
Edwin Sutherland originally began his theories in Sociology, but then as time passed, he became the father of Criminology. He focuses on Social Learning theory, and how people LEARN how to become criminals, they are not born that way. They LEARN through their culture and their society. A child does not come out of the womb a murderer, he/she must learn how to murder and in the violent culture we live in and the violent culture Sutherland lived in at the time. Sutherland then turned his focus on White Collar Crime, which is an AMAZING book, but you have to get the up to date one, because when it was originally published, the 300 agencies he named as being involved in White Collar Crime, were not allowed to be published. But over the past 10 years, they have become public knowledge. Sutherland was an amazing sociologist/criminologist and human. You should read some of his books.
