Question

Nowhere to Grow by Les Whitbeck and Dan Hoyt explored the lives of homeless and runaway teens in the Midwest. The authors found that "associating with deviant peers" had a dramatic effect on a wide range of deviant behaviors, including increasing "the likelihood of serious substance abuse almost 32 times." What theory of deviance considers the way such interpersonal relationships help to predict deviant behavior?

Answer 1

Answer:d. differential association

Explanation:Differential association theory suggests that values, attitudes, techniques, and motives that results to criminal behavior are not natural but are learned. Theory of differential association is described using the following propositions:

- People learn criminal behavior

- People learn these behavior through interacting with certain people around them who share such ideas.

- Usually these interactions don't occur with anyone but with the people that a person is mostly closed with.

- During these interactions people learn criminal techniques and they get encouraged through sharing some rationalization of why such activities should be committed.

- people will learn a great deal about legal codes in their geographic area in order to know if their behavior will be successful.

- when people find enough favourable reason to support their intended criminal activities then they will go ahead and commit the crime.