Double Failure
Definition
Cloward and Ohlin's term for someone who fails to reach success goals through both the legitimate opportunity structure and the illegitimate one, leaving retreat as the remaining option.
Related terms
- Conflict Subculture
- A delinquent subculture that forms where neither legitimate nor stable illegitimate opportunity exists, producing gang violence as a substitute route to status...
- Criminal Subculture
- A delinquent subculture that forms where a stable illegitimate opportunity structure exists, channelling youth into organised, income-generating crime such as theft rings...
- Differential Opportunity Structure
- The idea that access to illegitimate means of achieving success, like access to legitimate means, varies systematically by neighbourhood and social position...
- Illegitimate Means
- The second variable Cloward and Ohlin added to strain theory: the local supply of an organised illegal route to success, such as...
- Retreatist Subculture
- A delinquent subculture built around drug use and withdrawal, made up of double failures who cannot succeed through legitimate means or gain...