When diagnosed and treated in a localized stage, bladder cancer is very treatable, with a five-year cancer-specific survival rate approaching 95 percent. Smoking is the greatest risk factor for bladder cancer. The incidence increases in people 50 years of age and older.
Differential association theory is perhaps the best known social learning perspective of. criminality and reflects an interpersonal approach. Edwin Sutherland was a sociologist of. the Chicago School and symbolic interactionist thought, credited with bringing the field of. criminology under the sociological umbrella'. Sutherland developed differential. association theory to explain how criminals learn the techniques and means of particular. criminal activities, and how to rationalize such behaviour as normal and enjoyable2.
In his theory, Sutherland assessâ that criminal behavior is not to be explained away by deeming the criminal âsimple.â As do most social learning theories, Differential Association theory, believes that the behaviors of an individual are influenced and shaped by other individuals they associate with.his is the dominant premise for Differential Association theory. The premise that because an individual associates with more members of a group who favor deviance, than with members of a group who favor societal norms, that individual is more inclined to act defiantly.