Shaw and McKay Believed That Neighborhoods with High Rates of Delinquency

Shaw and McKay believed that neighborhoods with high rates of delinquency were usually ethnic-minority communities because

A) they were morally inferior to the white natives of Chicago.
B) they had not had the opportunities to work their way out of those conditions yet.
C) those communities were battling cultural conflicts among themselves.
D) the immigrants were ill-equipped for doing business in the United States.