What does lower-class reaction theory, created by Albert Cohen, postulate?

What will be an ideal response?


Views lower-class delinquency as non-utilitarian, malicious, and negativistic and views this crime as the response to inability to live up to middle-class values

Criminal Justice

You might also like to view...

Early tongs served as self-help organizations

a. True b. False

Criminal Justice

In Pena v. New York State Division for Youth, the Supreme Court ruled that hand restraints and tranquilizing drugs in juvenile correctional facilities violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Criminal Justice

The mens rea of criminal attempt is always purpose

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Criminal Justice

In ________, the Supreme Court ruled that parolees facing revocation are entitled to certain procedural safeguards.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

Criminal Justice