delinquency. Even if a middle class child was to succeed and live up to the expectations set by his parents, he may still grow up frustrated at not being allowed to break the middle class values and rules set, he may feel trapped, and in order to release this feeling may perform delinquent acts (Cohen 1955 p98-99).
Unlike the middle class child, the working class child is less likely to develop overwhelming dependency on the love of one or two adults, furthermore the working class child may be more dependent emotionally and have more friends than the middle class child, the middle class child may have little or no friends and again this will lead to frustration and deviancy (Cohen 1955 p101).
What causes the delinquent subculture? Is the delinquent subculture a response to problems of adjustment? This problem of adjusting is down to the fact that the working