The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap Highlight

study by famed criminologists Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi, for instance, opined that people who demonstrate low self-control in “a wide variety of criminal and analogous behaviors”—people who have issues with drinking or drugs, or have problems with school, interpersonal relationships, and keeping a job—“will not specialize in some [crimes] to the exclusion of others.” In other words: Low-class people do low-class things. This same thought process is buried in the way the initial Criminal Justice Agency interviews