Opiate Addicted and Non-Addicted Siblings in a Slum Area

• DOI: 10.2307/799725
• Publication Date: 2012-09-10T15:58:51Z
• Authors: Daniel Glaser; Bernard Lander; William Abbott
• Keywords: Anomie; Anticipation (artificial intelligence); Opiate

Comparison of addicted and non-addicted siblings in a slum area supports an ideographic "relative deprivation-differential anticipation" explanation for current opiate addiction the United States. The major sibling differences were addicts' greater participation street life at early age lesser work schooling, despite as high or higher aspirations ostensibly similar home settings parental relationships. anomie alienation may be more consequence than cause this. What seems to have insulated non-addict from drugs was commitment becoming conventional conforming adult. These differentiations within single families compatible explanations reinforcement, opportunity, stigmatization theories, their existence contradicts image uniformly enculturating delinquency neighborhoods.