ts most behavior is learned from parents, friends and family but can also be caused from psychological factors and biological factors such as some personality disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders and genetic irregularities such as XYY super males that are more prone to suffer from anti social personality disorder or psychopathy. But in essence differential association is clearly the better theory of criminal behavior than the latter theory of social ecology because differential association looks at what and who a person has around them, how often this influence is around and how significant the people are around them that helps to define who that person is if it be criminal or law abiding citizen. ...