Edwin Sutherland's study of a career criminal in the 1930s found that professional thieves had usually:

a. come from legitimate jobs.
b. started by organizing less-skilled offenders into a gang of thieves.
c. spent most of their teen years in juvenile detention facilities.
d. been amateur thieves in slum areas.


Answer: a

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