subculture and the structural explanations. The sociological explanations emphasize aspects of

societal arrangements that are external to the actor and compelling. A sociological explanation is

concerned with how the structure of a society or its institutional practices or its persisting cultural

themes affect the conduct of its members. Individual differences are denied or ignored, and the

explanation of the overall collective behavoir is sought in the patterning of social arrangements that

is considered to be both "outside" the actor and "prior to him" (Sampson, 1985). That is, the social

patterns of power or of institutions which are held to be determinative of human action are also

seen as having been in existence before any particular actor came on the scene. In lay language,

sociological explanations of crime place the blame on something social that is prior to, external to,

of the human individual. Social conditions may strengthen or weaken the moral ties that Durkheim

sociolo- gists and anthropologists believe that hostile behavior can be learned as easily as passive

changes in the boundries between class cultures. Generally speaking, whether one believes

politic is that the remedies may as well spread the disease as cure it. Among the prescriptions is

from riches to rags and, just as disturbing, form rags to riches, may constitute an impulse to

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