THE CORRECT ANSWER IS (D). BASED ON THE LAST SENTENCE OF THE PASSA...

23. The correct answer is (D). Based on the last sentence of the passage, we can conclude

that juvenile criminals associate primarily with other juvenile criminals, and that adult

criminals constitute the same group of people who were juvenile criminals. For choice

(D) to not be readily inferable would require that most adult criminals associate

primarily with law-abiding peers as teenagers. But this contradicts what we know

about adult criminals, based on the passage information. Thus, choice (D) is

strongly inferable.