Agnew's general strain theory describes how strains are more likely to lead to deviance when the strain is associated with a low amount of social control. Sutherland and Akers give a slightly different interpretation of this. They recognize that social factors, such as race and class, have an influence on criminal behavior because of their effect on an individual's likelihood of associating with others who have definitions of crime similar to theirs. However, these theologians refer to the concept of social control differently