@article{ref1,
title="Values and Gang Delinquency: A Study of Street-Corner Groups",
journal="American journal of sociology",
year="1963",
author="Gordon, Robert A. and Short, James F. and Cartwright, Desmond S. and Strodtbeck, Fred L.",
volume="69",
number="2",
pages="109-128",
abstract="Deduced from three theoretical positions on gang delinquency, hypotheses concerning the values of gang, non-gang lower-class, and non-gang middle-class boys were tested with a semantic differential. Contrary to expectation, the data indicated no differences between gang, lower-class, and middle-class boys, both Negro and white, in their evaluation and legitimation of behaviors representing middle-class prescriptive norms. These middle-class behaviors were also rated higher than deviant behaviors governed by middle-class proscriptive norms. The samples differed most in their attitude toward the deviant behaviors, tending to form a gradient, with gang boys most tolerant, middle-class boys least tolerant.<p />",
language="",
issn="0002-9602",
doi="10.1086/223541",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/223541"
}