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.
People learn deviance from the people with whom they associate. Critics of the differentialâassociation theory, on the other hand, claim the vagueness of the theory's terminology does not lend itself to social science research methods or empirical validation.