A person who shoplifts an item of clothing from a department store is apprehended and labeled as a "thief," and the person subsequently accepts that label, then the person shoplifts more items from stores on numerous occasions. this is an example of:
The correct answer is secondary deviance. It is because an
individual at this stage of deviance is likely to act in a way of accepting that
he or she is a deviant after having to be labeled as one in which could be seen
in the scenario above.