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Social Learning Theory and Youth Offenders

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Abstract

This research report based on the critical analysis of the Bandhura study in relation with social learning theories of youth offending behaviours. The main focus of this research is on the critical analysis of the theories proposed by Bandhura. Further to this, research will relate the studies with the general explanation of the social learning theories followed by the critical analysis of the theory proposed by various authors and how the psychological development of the behaviour of a person takes place with the relation of these theories. The research will follow the fact of having the analysis of the key theories of social learning. The explanation of social learning theories will provide a clear description of having the positive or negative impact, which generated through the behaviour of the people. Further, research will discuss the concept and analysis of the youth offending theories and behaviour which will generate the clears concept of how these theories can be related to criminal activities that placed. Finally, the research describes various factors, which are responsible for evolution of social learning theories, and tries to describe the overall effect of changing behaviours and attitude of people on the proposed theories.

Social Learning Theory and Youth Offenders

Introduction

Most of our beliefs and thoughts, we have inherited from our parents and our society from childhood. If as a child learned that "they had to trust strangers," Do you think that belief is useful for you right now? Time goes by our lives have changed and not because they keep walking to the rhythm of our thoughts of childhood. They no longer belong to our present stage of maturity and evolution.

Why do you think you are no good for the study? Why your first grade teacher told you were lousy at math? Phrases like "Boys do not cry", "if you get wet you get sick", "girls do not climb trees" and so on, are highly damaging and limiting not only now but also where we learned when we were children.

A child who learns not to "mourn" learn not to express their feelings, to save them, and eventually will live a "suffocating" retained by such anguish, until its sensitivity gradually end up falling asleep, losing also live the good times that life offers us.

A girl learns that she can only for the games are "safe" is a girl who will grow with the eternal fear of the physical. You cannot take a step without the fear of falling. Why a child cannot climb a tree, fence, play football? Why is the body of a child if you can run the risk of injury and not a girl? Is it more painful for the girl to the child? (Akers, 1973, 45)

You see in the childhood we learn things that pertain to the beliefs of others that are not ours and not always true. It is very important to stop and analyze each of our beliefs and see if they are still useful at this time ...