Matza
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- Matza, D.
- Basics
- Criticising strain theory - it over predicts delinquency
- delinquents conform to societies rules
- Deviance is unpredictable and has no pattern
- Delinquents occasionally drift away from dominant values
- Subterranean Values
- Excitement
- Machismo
- Rejection of work
- Toughness
- Techniques of neutralisation
- denial of the victim
- denial of injury
- condemnation of the condemners
- Denial of responsibility
- appeal to higher loyalties
- Evaluation
- Underplays crime, and that it does not explain the full mass of crime or the types of crime that can occur
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