This document discusses various sociological theories related to juvenile delinquency and subcultures. It mentions theories from scholars like Merton, Cloward and Ohlin, Walter Miller, Murray, Matza, Paul Gilroy, Clarke, Becker, Goffman that examine concepts like blocked opportunities, status frustration, focal concerns, edgework, dependency culture, and societal reaction in relation to delinquency and subcultural values and resistance. The document also evaluates these different theories and perspectives.

2. Developed from
Merton

3. Blocked
Opportunities =
frustration

4. Juvenile
delinquency

5. Status
frustration

6. Reject traditional
middle class
values

7. Source of
status, identity
and way to rebel

8. Illegitimate
Opportunity
Structure

9. Adult networks
in crime

10. Focal concerns

11. Subculture not due
to frustration but a
distinct lower class
set of values

12. Edgework

13. Dependency
culture

14. Low morals

15. Underclass

16. Lack of
discipline

17. No self-
responsibility

18. Delinquency
and drift

19. Political
rebellion

20. Symbolic
resistance

21. Skinheads

22. Black crime –
against Babylon

23. Cultural
bricolage

24. CCCS

25. Challenge
hegemony

26. Deviant career

27. Master status

28. Altered self-
concept

29. Societal
reaction =
marginalisation

30. Albert
cohen

31. Cloward
and ohlin

32. Walter
miller

33. murray

34. matza

35. Paul gilroy

36. clarke

37. becker

38. goffman

39. Subcultural
theory

40. New Right

41. Neo Marxist

42. Labelling

43. Evaluation

44. Evaluation

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