One of the major problems of youth today is the issue of juvenile
             delinquency in society. Murder, rape, motor vehicle theft, robbery,
             aggravated assault, larceny, arson, and burglary are acts of violence that
             are steadily rising due to juveniles taking part in committing these acts
             violence. As years continue to pass, there has been enormous concern of how
             parents, police, counselors, teachers, and friends feel that the ability to
             control or stop juvenile acts of violence is slowly slipping away over time
             and are desperately trying to alter behavioral patterns that continue into
             these dangerous ways of life. Before attempting to determine the cause for
             this specific kind of behavior, consideration has to be given to the area
             of location, background of an individual, family pattern, and life at home
             as these variables affect how a child is raised and how they react to
             violence. So, to get an understanding of why juveniles participate in
             violence and act the way they do, it is important to explore the social
             theories of learning. These theories include four different techniques in
             understanding deviant behavior. They are classical conditioning, operant
             conditioning, differential association, and differential reinforcement and
             should help society get a better feel of the negative behavioral patterns
             and thoughts of our youth and should hopefully change the way future
             generations carry out their everyday lives.
             The first social learning theory that is important to the study of
             delinquency is the classical conditioning theory. This is an automatic type
             of learning where individuals develop responses to certain stimuli that are
             not naturally occurring in the environment. The theory also states that if
             a person commits a carefully calculated crime, the result is that the
             individual experiences more pleasure than pain. Ivan Pavlov was a
             physiologist who attempted to prove this theory by con...