Edwin H. Sutherland's theory that a person who becomes a criminal does so because of his or her contact with criminal definitions and isolation from anticriminal definitions is known as

A. social disorganization.
B. collective conscience.
C. differential association.
D. differential social organization.


Answer: D

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