Robert Merton Believed That the United States Has Such a High

Robert Merton believed that the United States has such a high crime rate because

A) Like the Philadelphia slum in which he grew up, there were many neighborhoods that were socially disorganized.
B) Delinquent subcultures were strong in the nation's inner cities and induced many youths to commit acts of violence.
C) In the United States, there was a disjunction or gap between what many people were led to want-economic success-and what they had the means to achieve.
D) The rise of broken homes in the United States has resulted in too many of the nation's children growing up without the love and supervision that they need to stay out of trouble.