Miller, Walter B.: Lower-Class Culture Theory of Delinquency

Subcultural theories of crime and delinquency became very prominent in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Walter B. Miller was an anthropologist who studied youth gangs for many years. Miller's 1958 paper, titled “Lower Class Culture as a Generating Milieu of ...

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