Identify and describe the three types of illegitimate juvenile subcultures identified by Cloward and Ohlin?
What will be an ideal response?
Criminal (occurs in stable slum neighborhoods where a hierarchy of available criminal opportunities exists such as substituting theft, extortion, and property offenses as the means of achieving success); Conflict (occurs in disorganized slums that include groups denied both legitimate and illegitimate sources of access to status such as resorting to violence as a means of gaining prestige); Retreatist (unable to succeed either in the legitimate or illegitimate opportunity structures so reject both the means and ends resulting in their simply “dropping out” such as drug abusers)
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Up to the 1940s, police commonly used the "________ ________" to beat confessions out of suspects
Fill in the blank with correct word.
Why are theories needed to explain crime?
What will be an ideal response?
Many Blacks left the South for the sole purpose of escaping racism and determination
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of the following is a Part I offense?
a. driving under the influence b. embezzlement c. drug abuse violations d. larceny/theft