While Doing Research on Crime, Professor Middler Notes That Crime

While doing research on crime, Professor Middler notes that crime creates jobs in law enforcement and related careers. He also notices that crime reinforces community norms when criminals are caught and punished. Professor Middler has probably adopted the _______ approach to the study of crime.

A) conflict theory
B) social Darwinism
C) structural functionalism
D) ethnomethodology
E) symbolic interactionism