where he finds no support in his social world. He becomes delinquent” (Cohen 1955 p33-34).
Another theory that should be noted in relation to delinquent behaviour is ‘anomie’, in egalitarian societies like America, cultural goals are set as examples for everyone to achieve such as money success, in America everyone has a chance to live the ‘American Dream’, however people who cannot achieve these goals have feelings of frustration by the society in which they are in and have to find other ways to achieve status and achievement, crime and deviance may be a response. This theory offers plausible explanations for property delinquency of some older and semi professional juvenile thieves, however it fails to account the non-utilitarian quality of the subculture mentioned before. The delinquent in this theory would respect the goods he has acquired, where as the