Sampson and Laub’s theory of cumulative disadvantage:

a. suggests that attachments develop in response to key life events like getting married and having kids.
b. claims that labeling can limit opportunities for employment and interpersonal relationships and that this creates a situation in which the offender is free to commit more crime because there is little to lose.
c. argues that chronic offenders are often abused as children and grow up in criminogenic environments.
d. identifies two types of offenders: adolescent-limited and life course persistent.
e. proposes that poverty-stricken communities suffer from social disorganization and this causes a higher percentage of the residents to become serious criminals.


b. claims that labeling can limit opportunities for employment and interpersonal relationships and that this creates a situation in which the offender is free to commit more crime because there is little to lose.

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