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6 J. Res. Crime & Delinquency 1 (1969)

handle is hein.journals/jrcd6 and id is 1 raw text is: Journal of Research in Crime and 1)elinquency VOLUME 6 JANUARY 1969 NUMBER 1 Relative Occupational Anticipations and Aspirations of Delinquents and Nondelinquents* MARCEL A. FREDERICKS Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Loyola University of Chicago Ph.D. (Medical Sociology), 1965, Loyola University MARTIN 'MOLNAR Chief Librarian, Loyola University-Rome Center, Rome, Italy M.A. (Sociology), 1968, Loyola University This study examines the levels of occupational aspirations and anticipations of a group of delinquent and nondelinquent boys in relation to their fathers' occupation. The two groups were controlled in respect to sex (only boys), age (only seventeen- year-olds), race (only whites and Negroes), and social class. The delinquent sample comprised sixty-one boys confined to a mid- western training school. The control was made up of seventy boys from upper working-class and lower middle-class neighbor- hoods in the Chicago area. The study findings include the following: (1) Almost three of every four nondelinquents anticipate higher occupations than those of their fathers; (2) Negro delinquents hope to obtain occupations above the level of their fathers; and (3) Negro boys appear to be most motivated to rise above the occupational levels of their fathers. However, so far as relative goal discrepan- cy is concerned, the lower-class Negro in the sample study reflects the lowest degree of confidence. D URING RECENT YEARS, there have of the relationship between delin- been several interesting studies quency and such variables as social ' Dr. Fredericks wishes to acknowledge the the Health Service Research Training Com- Public Health Service Fellowship granted by mittee, which greatly facilitated the presen- 1

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