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NAMBLA, hmmmmwhere to start? (lol) In order to go against the grain of society, a person usually seeks reinforcement for their beliefs in other places. In the case of NAMBLA, a man may have interest in young males sexually and, through his lifestyle choices, encounters other people who share the same ideas. Edwin Sutherland theorized that criminal behavior is learned based on the interactions people have with others and the values that are received during that interaction. The third postulate states that the principal part of the learning of criminal behavior occurs within intimate personal groups. NAMBLA certainly would qualify as an intimate group. Members of this group use justification and other rationalizations (Hensley 110) to back up their beliefs; postulate 6 says that a person becomes delinquent because of an excess of definitions favorable to violation of law over definitions unfavorable to violation of the law. Their definitions now help promote the idea of 'benefits and advantages to children having a sexual relationship with an adult male (109)'. These definitions help to counter society's stigmatic view of their deviant act. (I'm not sure if this is an accurate example, but I'll give it a whirl) A young boy that is brought up in a typical American home that shares the bulk of society's conceptions would be 'damaged' by a sexual encounter with an adult, according to literature (110)...