In a recent speech, Senator Jones commented that if people want to decrease the crime rate, society needs to attack crime at its social roots: poverty, racism, and sexism. These things, she says, block people's access to success and so they turn to crime. Senator Jones's position is most similar to which theoretical perspective?
A) structural strain theory
B) primary deviance theory
C) secondary deviance theory
D) labeling theory
E) atavism
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