- Frequent events
- Successful adult careers
- Subculture will not change

Features of Delinquent Subcultures

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

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

Illegitimate Opportunities

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

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