1) Denial of responsibility - It isn't the culprit's fault, something made him/her do it e.g. 'I was drunk'
2) Denial of victim - The crime in general is wrong, but the victim in this particular case deserved it e.g. 'he was asking for it'
3) Denial of injury - The victim is seen as not being harmed in any way by the crime e.g. 'they can afford it'
4) Conbdemnation of condemners - The delinquent argues that the accusers are no different than he/she e.g. 'Yeah I was driving when drunk, but so does everybody else - even you'
5) Appeal to higher loyalties - The delinquent claims that he/she had to do it because of some general 'moral' standard e.g 'I couldn't leave my mates (during a fight)'.
Techniques of neutralisation act as a justification for why the general rules can be broken and are based on commonly held and understood mainstream values.
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