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SOCIAL CLASS, SCHOOL EXPERIENCE, AND DELINQUENCY
Author(s) -
POLK KENNETH,
FREASE DEAN,
RICHMOND F. LYNN
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
criminology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.467
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1745-9125
pISSN - 0011-1384
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1974.tb00622.x
Subject(s) - juvenile delinquency , psychology , class (philosophy) , developmental psychology , population , social psychology , criminology , sociology , demography , computer science , artificial intelligence
Albert Cohen's delinquency theory is vulnerable to demonstrations of similar qualities, as well as similar quantities, of delinquency between middle and working‐class groups. In analyses of questionnaire data from a high school male population, no significant differences in incidence of delinquency emerge between classes. No significant differences obtain between classes of delinquents on items tapping the peer or subcultural dimensions Cohen considers particularly characteristic of working‐class delinquency. Finally, delinquency is shown to be related to academic performance regardless of class .