Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Agnew argues that strain frustration may lead to the collective solution of forming a delinquent subculture in which middle-class norms and values are replaced with their antithesis—or the opposite ideals.
2. According to differential opportunity theory, criminal subcultures and the neighborhoods in which they reside can perpetuate crime through generations with the use of their own forms of icons and role models (legitimate or not).
3. According to Robert Agnew’s General Strain Theory, some people are predisposed to crime, while others are not.
4. According to Cloward and Ohlin, retreatist subcultures develop in disorganized communities where illegitimate opportunities are largely absent and those that exist are closed to adolescents.
5. Emile Durkheim suggested deviance is a result of a lack of regulation of goals and unlimited desires/needs.
1. False
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. True
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