The ______ approach to explaining crime and delinquency developed during the 1930s and 1940s focuses on the geographical distribution of delinquency.

A. ecological/social disorganization
B. concentric-zone
C. sociological
D. differential association


A. ecological/social disorganization

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a. TRUE b. FALSE

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