Diiferential Association Theory: Darius Martin

Darius Martin is a young man that had a rough childhood growing up. Growing up his father was incarcerated his entire life and his mother was a hard working single mother that worked 3 jobs to support Darius and his two brothers. Darius was involved in crime at a young age, which included this such as theft, vandalism and fighting. Throughout school he was looked as a kid that will never be anything in life so teachers did not bother to put much effort into him bevasue it seemed as a waste of their time. Many people made fun of him in highschool because he did not wear the nicest attire. He would come in often waring the same clothes multiple times of a week and students would often mock him calling him and bum and poor. Darius did not understand

Upon going to court the judge sentenced him to ten years in prision. The earliest that he will see the light of day is at the age twenty eight. This means that he will most likely have no chance of earning any sort of education and he will have to apply for a job with no type of expiernce in working.

Darius falls into the diiferential association theory where crime is a product of social learning norms, values and criminal behaviors are learned. He never had a father figure to show him what it was to be and adult. His mother had a difficult time showing enough attention to him due to the amount of work overload that she had just to obtain place to stay and be able to feed her kids. Growing up in a urban area, education is often looked as a joke because many people do not think that it is possible to ever leave the area and they are stuck in as cycle of incarceration. Darius fell into that intimate group of people that gave him false hope that their actions were going to make him succeed in life and it was a good idea. With no other sort of influence he falls into the differential reinforcement theory because he believed that the people that sold drugs were correct; he will be rewarded and respected if he follows their footsteps. He is wrong for what he does but without putting giving him something to deter him from going back to incarceration he will be back over and over because it is the only thing that he