Consider the relationship between patriarchy, powerlessness, and crime. When lower-class males are shut out of the economic opportunity structure, they try to build their self-image through acts of machismo; such acts may involve:

a. self-mutilation. b. violent abuse of women.
c. drug use. d. the use of weapons.


b

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