Social reaction (labeling) theory are negative or positive labels that can influence the person to become a criminal. For example, a seven-year-old boy steels a candy bar from the store and gets caught and media puts him in the paper. Now all the children call him a robber and later he commits a more serious offense like stealing a car. Usually social reaction/labeling is associated with a primary and secondary deviances. A primary deviance would be the poor boy took the candy bar because he was hungry and living on the streets, but never committed another crime after he became wealthy. A secondary deviance is a long-term violation that started from a negative label that later became a criminal. Like the boy who took a candy bar, and known