vered Garfield "cause that's where the niggers was. Garfield was black" (85). By embracing what other people valued and thought, Robert incorporated the same criminal values as his own. Robert has accepted his fate, a life of glamour through deviant behavior.
             Delinquency at an early age may have contributed to Robert's behavior. According to Cohen, deviant behavior derives from an inversion of values. Robert's values can be best summed up by the statement "[t]he thing was to make your own rules, do your own thing, but make sure it's contrary to what society says or is" (58) . Inversion of values is practically portraying what society views as socially acceptable, unacce
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