Edwin H. Sutherland's ________ states that persons who become criminal do so because of contacts with criminal definitions and isolation from noncriminal definitions.

A. differential association theory
B. learning theory
C. social control theory
D. anomie (or strain) theory


Answer: A

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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