Cloward and Ohlin's Differential Opportunity

• This considers access to:

  • Legitimate
  • Illegitimate opportunities

• Understand the motivation to do crime, and opportunities to do so.

• This bridges the gap between neighbourhood conditinons (Social Disorganization Theory) and criminal opportunities.

• Reflects what we know about gangs.

• Walter and Jesse

  • Walter knows how to cook
  • Jesse knows how to deal
  • If walter was by himself, he wouldn't have the same opportunities to success with it as with jesse.