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Albert K. Cohen was an American sociologist and criminologist best known for Delinquent Boys: The Culture of the Gang, published in 1955. He argued that some working-class boys experience status frustration when judged by middle-class institutional standards and may form delinquent subcultures with...
Richard A. Cloward was an American sociologist and social-work scholar associated with research on poverty, delinquency, and political organizing. With Lloyd E. Ohlin, he wrote Delinquency and Opportunity in 1960, developing an opportunity theory that linked forms of juvenile delinquency to unequal...
American sociologist who co-authored Delinquency and Opportunity (1960) with Richard Cloward, a work that shaped Kennedy-era federal anti-delinquency programs.
