According to Matza's "drift theory," youths who become delinquent:
A) have histories of chronic family neglect that permit them to drift into deviant ways
B) are hedonists who seize opportunities for immediate gratification whenever they present themselves
C) get caught up in delinquent subcultures whose values run counter to those of conventional society
D) are not strongly committed to deviant values, existing in a kind of limbo between conventionality and crime, flirting with one and then the other
E) are a group of chronic misfits who lack the intelligence and social skills to be accepted among their conventional peers
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