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For the learning theorist, crime is a product of social learning whereby an individual’s decision to commit crime results from observation and association.

— Jacqueline B. Helfgott Criminal Behavior (2008)

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"Criminal behavior” is an individual-level behavioral product of an infinite array of factors and forces that converge at a given point in time. The term “crime” can be understood more broadly as the collective amount of criminal behavior in a society.

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[C]rime is a social, interpersonal, and personal harm that, more often than not, has tragic and enduring consequences.

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"Criminal behavior is a cultural and subcultural product”. Media and popular culture and the escalating number of “media junkies” and media-mediated crimes (Black, 1991) call attention to the need to make sense of how media and popular culture shape criminal behavior.

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