American criminologist and professor emeritus at the University of Florida who developed social learning theory of crime, building on Robert Burgess and Edwin Sutherland to explain criminal behavior as learned through association, imitation and differential reinforcement. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Death YearSourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountDeveloped social learning theory of crime with Robert Burgess (1966), refined solo from 1973. 1 Ronald L. Akers
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Ronald Louis Akers was an American criminologist and professor emeritus of criminology and law at the University of Florida's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
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Wikidata Q2165653, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source SAGE Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory: Social Learning Theory
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