Gangs Provide Members with a Means of Attaining Higher Status

question 98

Multiple Choice

Gangs provide members with a means of attaining higher status and material rewards that may otherwise seem unavailable to them. Cloward and Ohlin have coined the concept of___________ to refer to this.

• A) strain theory
• B) criminal careers
• C) illegitimate opportunity structures
• D) differential opportunity theory

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