delinquent subculture would not care for material goods so this theory has no relevance in terms of the delinquent subculture (Cohen 1955 p35-36).
Who are the members of delinquent subcultures? Are they mainly under educated working class individuals who know nothing else than to commit acts of delinquency or are they middle class educated people who feel frustrated of the constant rules and laws they must abide by?
Cohen (1955 p37-38) argues “Juvenile delinquency and the delinquent subculture in particular are overwhelmingly concentrated in the male working class sector, most statistical analyses of juvenile delinquency agree that delinquency in general is predominantly working class phenomenon. It is logically conceivable, however that the correlation between juvenile delinquency and social class is a statistical artefact produced by the biases of the police