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Deviant Behaviour Theory

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Judith Van Evra (1990) states that the social learning theory youth have higher chance to model deviant behaviour when they are similar or are attracted to a character, by identifying with the character the behaviour becomes realistic and viewed as a social agent to allow deviant behaviour (Anderson, 2013). Another, important factor is the vicarious reinforcement of the deviant behaviour, for example, if youth see that the bad behaviour is rewarded and is constantly shown multiple time on television they feel more conformable to engage it in themselves or ignore it in others when they display the behaviour (Anderson, 2013, Van Evra, 1990). For instance, youth smoking and drinking if a parent on a television accepts this type of behaviour a

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