Contemporary interest in crime and the emotions can usefully be traced back to Stanley Cohen´s study (1967: 17) of mods and rockers which sought to demonstrate how numerous factors combined to produce delinquency through the humiliating ´status frustrations experienced by working-class boys and the alienating differences of class-based value systems.

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Stanley Cohen's study of mods and rockers, while influential in the sociology of deviance, focused on moral panics and societal reactions to youth subcultures, rather than directly linking emotions, class-based value systems, and delinquency in the manner described. The concept of status frustration and its link to delinquency is more closely associated with Albert K. Cohen's work on working-class boys, not Stanley Cohen's research on mods and rockers.

Contemporary Interest in Crime and the Emotions Can Usefully Be