What Has Research Found About the Influence of Friendships Made

What has research found about the influence of friendships made later in life; a finding that challenges some of the assumptions in differential association?

A) Friendships cultivated earlier in life had more of an influence on criminality than friendships made more recently.
B) Adult friendships create opportunities to commit crime than those made when young.
C) Friendships made later in life are more likely to be based on shared patterns of drug use than those made when young.
D) Friendships cultivated later in life had more of an influence on criminality than friendships acquired earlier in life.