After reading current research on the causes of juvenile crime and noting that lack of opportunity, school failure, and parental neglect are often prominently mentioned, you have trouble reconciling what you read with what your personal experience. You think in particular of someone you went to high school with who, despite coming from a well-educated, wealthy family, being a star student and

athlete, and having very attentive parents, carried out a series of burglaries and arsons. This illustrates the ____ fallacy.

a. individualistic
b. ecological
c. observational
d. personal


A

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