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Edwin Sutherland’s theory of Differential Association is about an individual learning criminal behavior through interaction with intimate groups. Edwin Sutherland’s differential association theory overall states that criminals learn their techniques, attitudes, values, and motives for their criminal behaviors from their interaction with individuals they come in contact with daily (Akers, 2013). Sutherland believed that learning criminal behavior had the same mechanisms as learning pother types of behavior which would allow individuals to not only learn criminal behavior, but to also learn the skills, excuses, motivations, and attitudes for committing crimes (Boman, & Freng, 2017). The major theory that the director hits on in the movie Boyz N' the Hood is differential association theory. There are many deviant behaviors’ that take place in this movie. Tre in start of movie walks past a group of men playing a dice game. Then, a man in the dice game jumps over and starts a fight with another player. This is an example of differential association. This is something that could have been learned. If Tre takes this same route home every day and he sees fights happen over something small, he would think it is okay for him to react with violence if someone says or does something that he does not agree with. Another example of differential association theory is when Tre's mother called and he answered the phone saying “who dis”. It was his mother and she told him that that is no way to answer the phone. She asked to talk to his father, who then answered the phone saying “who dis”. This is an example of differential association theory because it can be seen that when Tre was a child he did not answer the phone this way at his mother's house. His mother did not approve of this type of behavior and it had to be something that he picked up from his father. Another reason Sutherland would agree with these examples is because once Tre moved with his father he no longer fought. He fought and had a bad temper when he was living with his mother because the area they stayed in had people who had bad tempers and he saw that on day to day bases. He learned that having a bad temper was okay and that it was okay to fight when you encountered something that you did not like (Bartolomé Leal, 2013).
  
References
  
Akers, R. L. (2013). Criminological Theories: Introduction and Evaluation. London, England: Routledge.
  
Bartolomé Leal, A. (2013). Boyz out the hood? Geographical, linguistic and social mobility in John Singleton’s Boyz N the Hood. Journal of English Studies, 11, 27. doi:10.18172/jes.2615
  
Boman, J. H., & Freng, A. (2017). Differential Association Theory, Social Learning Theory, and Technocrime. Technocrime and Criminological Theory, 55-65. doi:10.4324/9781315117249-4

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