According to Cloward and Ohlin, the criminal subculture is composed of dropouts involved with excessive alcohol and drug use, sexually promiscuous behavior, and survival activities such as pimping. Members of these subcultures are deemed double failures because they have also failed in other types of gangs as well as in conventional society.

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Cloward and Ohlin argued that different types of delinquent subcultures arise in different neighborhoods, focusing on criminal, conflict, and retreatist subcultures. The description given mixes elements of the retreatist subculture (those who fail in both legitimate society and the criminal and conflict subcultures, often turning to drug use) with incorrect generalizations about the behaviors and characteristics of members in these subcultures.

According to Cloward and Ohlin, the Criminal Subculture Is Composed