The concept "retrospective labeling" refers to the process of ________
a. interpreting someone's past consistent with present deviance.
b. defining someone as deviant for things done long before.
c. criminal adults encouraging their children to become deviant.
d. predicting someone's future based on past deviant acts.
Answer: a
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