... of a specific crime and specific motives, attitudes, rationalizations and drives; this implies that learning deviant behavior entails several dissimilar dimensions of criminality. The fifth principle of differential association theory is that ``definitions of the legal code as either unfavorable or favorable has a significant influence motivation and drives for delinquent behavior, for instance if a person interacts with people who ... an individual develops a criminal behavior "because of the excess of definitions that are favorable to violation of the law". That implies that more ille...

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