According to Cullen and Agnew (2011), the deferential association theory was created by Edwin Sutherland starting in 1939. Cullen and Agnew (2011) provided some historical perspectives on the story of creation. of the theory of differential associations of crime. According to Cullen and Agnew (2011), Edwin Sutherland developed the basis of his differential association theory from the work of Shaw and McKay's social disorganization theory. According to Cullen and Agnew (2011), Edwin Sutherland developed his theory based on Shaw and McKay's argument that differences in crime in neighborhoods or communities resulted from exposure and learning of criminal values, primarily by association with other people in the same neighborhood. Sutherland capitalized on these ideas in his theory of differential association which, according to Cullen and Agnew (2011), was the first attempt to explain crime from an individual's perspective based on the societal factors that drive that individual to commit a crime. Initially, according to Cullen and Agnew (2011), Agnew's (2011) Sutherland's central thesis on differential association theory explains why every individual is attracted to criminal behavior and that criminal behavior is learned through interaction with other people. Furthermore, Cullen and Agnew (2011) stated that a person becomes delinquent (criminal) due to an "excess" of "definitions" favorable to the commission of crimes compared to "definitions" unfavorable to the commission of a crime. Feldmeyer (Lecture, 03/12/2014) said that "definitions" can be described as exposure to a social message about behavior that you pick up on over time and that shapes your view of crime, such as: motivations, rationalizations, beliefs, attitudes, life experiences. .Furthermore, according to Feld...... middle of article ......nce in order to try to explain deviant behavior in society. The similarities between micro-level learning theories and macro-level learning theories are that criminal behavior is learned through the same processes and that it is behavior learned from other criminals . The main differences between these theories are that macro level theories focus on the beliefs, norms and attitudes of cultures, subgroups and deviant subcultures such as: lower classes, minors, gangs of street and African-American communities. Whereas micro level theories focus on the beliefs, norms and attitudes of individuals and do not emphasize the group to which these individuals may or may not belong. According to Cullen and Agnew (2011), Akers extended his social learning theory to also include some aspects of macro-level social learning theories..