Delinquent Subcultures : Sociological Interpretations of Gang Delinquency
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David J. Bordua, Ph.D., Ann Arbor, Michigan, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He received his doctorate from Harvard in 1957 and has published on theories of delinquency, authoritarianism, college aspirations of high school youth, and the use of formal selection instruments to detect delinquents at an early age. ABSTRACT: Group delinquency has been of theoretical interest to American sociology for more than half a century. During that time, four major interpretations of the origins of gang delinquency and delinquent subcultures have emerged. The classical view developed by Thrasher focuses on the de-
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