Felix Padilla's study of a Puerto Rican street gang in Chicago used which research methods?

a. Observational and biographical methods
b. Biographical and cohort analysis methods
c. Comparative and patterns-of-crime methods
d. Observational and cohort analysis methods


Answer: a

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