Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Cohen argued that lower class juveniles experience the strain of being unsuccessful in middle-class terms, especially in the school setting.
2. According to differential association theory, delinquency and crime follow the pattern of social and physical structures of the city, with concentration occurring in deteriorated areas.
3. Labeling and stigma processes are not particularly important for understanding the consequences of parental incarceration for children.
4. Chambliss posited that the focus of conflict theories was on the whole political and economic systems as well as class relations within those systems.
5. Anomie theory refers to a breakdown of social norms or the dissociation of the individual from a general sense of morality of the times.


1. TRUE
2, FALSE
3, FALSE
4, TRUE
5. TRUE

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