When talking about crime or deviance for that matter, birds of a feather flock together holds true. Southerland’s differential association theory and Hirschi’s social bonding theory supports this phrase by explaining the behavior and activities are guided by the groups we are in. People tend to perform in accordance to the norms whether those norms are deviant or not. Society puts us in flocks early on with school classes, youth groups at church and sport teams. Growing up I was put in all of these different flocks. In school they grouped students according to standardized test. Student’s that excelled were put into a “gifted” classroom. I was placed in the “middle to low” level classes. Students in the “gifted” classes came from wealth
