Summary Of Wolfgang Crutchfiled

The prevalence of criminal activity in certain communities has caused criminologist to focus their attention on race and subcultures, creating, what Crutchfield perceives as the tenuous theory, known as the subculture of violence. In his essay, Crutchfiled discusses Wolfgang and Ferracuti in order to demonstrate the link between their thesis and the subculture of violence. As a result, the philosophical viewpoint that certain scholars posses when analyzing the relationship between assault, criminal activity, and ethnicity, become evident. Wolfgang and Ferracuti composed the argument that subcultures of violence manifest in lower-class, urban, non-white communities and are preserved by a specific social structure, family characteristics, an