s said to have its own values, many of which
             run counter to the majority interests that support the laws
             against the serious predatory crimes.
             One needs to note that the indicators of class are not
             descriptions of class. Proponents of subcultural explanations
             of crime do not define a class culture by any assortment of the
             objective indicators or rank, such as annual income or years of
             schooling. The subcultural theorists is interested in pattern-
             ed ways of life which may have evolved with a division of labor
             and which, then, are called "class" cultures. The pattern,
             however, is not described by reference to income alone, or by
             reference to years of schooling or occupational skill. The
             pattern includes these indicators, but it is not defined by
             them. The subcultural theorist is more intent upon the variet-
             ies of human value. these are preferred ways of living that
             are acted upon. In the economist's language, they are
             The thesis that is intimated, but not often explicated, b
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