Multiple Choice
The concept "retrospective labeling" refers to the process of
A) predicting that someone will become deviant at some point in the future.
B) delinquent children growing into criminal adults.
C) defining someone as deviant for things done long before.
D) interpreting someone's past as consistent with present deviance.
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