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Author Cloward, Richard A.

Title Delinquency and opportunity : a theory of delinquent gangs / by Richard A. Cloward and Lloyd E. Ohlin.

Publication Info. London : Routledge, 1998.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 220 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The international library of sociology.
The sociology of youth and adolescence ; 6
International library of sociology.
Sociology of youth and adolescence ; 6.
Note Reprint. Originally published: Routledge and K. Paul, 1961.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Cover; DELINQUENCY AND OPPORTUNITY; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION; 1 DELINQUENT SUBCULTURES; Deviance and Delinquency; Delinquent Acts and Delinquent Subcultures; Delinquent Norms; Varieties of Delinquent Subculture; The Distribution of Delinquent Subcultures; 2 QUESTIONS A THEORY MUST ANSWER; The Origin of Pressures Toward Deviance; The Evolution of Delinquent Subcultures; Change and Persistence of Delinquent Subcultures; 3 SOME CURRENT THEORIES OF DELINQUENT SUBCULTURES; Masculine Identification and Delinquent Subcultures; Adolescence and Delinquent Subcultures.
Lower-class Culture and Delinquent Subcultures4 GOALS, NORMS, AND ANOMIE; The Regulation of Goals: Durkheim; The Regulation of Goals and Norms: Merton; Success Values in American Life; Barriers to Legitimate Opportunity; Alternative Avenues to Success-Goals; 5 THE EVOLUTION OF DELINQUENT SUBCULTURES; The Process of Alienation; Collective vs. Individual Solutions; Techniques of Defense Against Guilt; The Collective Problem-Solving Process; 6 ILLEGITIMATE MEANS AND DELINQUENT SUBCULTURES; The Availability of Illegitimate Means; Learning and Performance Structures.
Differential Opportunity: A HypothesisIllegitimate Opportunities and the Social Structure of the Slum; Slum Organization and Subcultural Differentiation; 7 SUBCULTURAL DIFFERENTIATION; The Criminal Subculture; The Conflict Subculture; The Retreatist Subculture; 8 PERSISTENCE AND CHANGE IN DELINQUENT SUBCULTURES; Patterns of Persistence in Delinquent Subcultures; Patterns of Change in Delinquent Subcultures; INDEX.
Summary First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Subject Gangs.
Gangs.
Juvenile delinquency.
Juvenile delinquency.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Ohlin, Lloyd E.
Other Form: Print version: Cloward, Richard A. Delinquency and opportunity. London : Routledge, 1998 0415176638 (OCoLC)670108962
ISBN 9781136250002 (electronic book)
113625000X (electronic book)
0415176638
9780415176637