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Variabili della struttura sociale• The social structural variables are indicators of the primarydistal macro-level and meso-level causes of crime, whilethe social learning variables reflect the primary proximatecauses of criminal behavior that mediate the relationshipbetween social structure and crime rates. Some structuralvariables are not related to crime and do not explain thecrime rate because they do not have a crime relevant ect onthe social learning variables ( Akers, 1998)• Akers (1998) identified four dimension of social structurethat provide the contexts within which social learningvariables operate