Multiple Choice
Which view states that becoming a criminal is a learning process in which potential delinquents master skills that enable them to counterbalance conventional values and drift back and forth between illegitimate and conventional behavior?
A) social reaction theory
B) differential association theory
C) differential reinforcement theory
D) neutralization theory
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