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The idea that individuals learn to be deviant by interacting with others who are already deviant is called:

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The statement is describing differential association theory. The differential association theory proposes the behavior of an individual in which he or she produces criminal acts as he or she learns or imitates behavior of a criminal in which is connected to the statement above.

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