One major weakness of cultural transmission theory is that it fails to explain

a. why most people raised in crime-ridden environments do not become deviants.
b. how deviance is learned.
c. how deviance is transmitted from generation to generation.
d. how deviance is transmitted from one ethnic group to another.
e. how anomie is related to deviance.


A

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