- Criminal Subcultures- Role models exist to show how to do crime
- Conflict Subcultures- Violence is used to seek status
- Retreatist Subcultures- Retreat from society

3 Types of Delinquent Subcultures

- Subcultures provide a path to success that the wider culture does not 
- Delinquent behavior is an available subculture 

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- Cloward and Ohlin Theory
- Legitiamte and Illigitamate opporutnities for success

Differential Opportunity

Schmalleger, F. (2014). Criminology (The Justice Series). Criminology (2nd ed.). Pearson. https://archive.org/details/criminology0000schm. 

Criminology (The Justice Series)

- America is centered around Middle-class expectations and the  lower classes dont have the opportunities to achieve these goals

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