... laws was tolerated. In a new study done by "The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods" In 1995 revealed a much different picture. Interviews where conduced on 6,000 children and the primary caregivers over an 8 years span. The results where quite shocking to me. I like most Americans believed that crime, drugs, police, and the law was not important to the lower class of people within that society. The research focused on how neighborhood characteristics influenced behavior, potential delinquency, substance abuse and violence within distinctive neighborhoods, racial, and ethnic groups. I was surprised to find that whites, blacks nor Latinos represented a majority of the population. The study found that Chicago residents where intolerant of teenager's behavior of social deviance. This was then broken down to racial and ethnic groups. Blacks and Latinos are less tolerant of deviance then whites: 42 percent of blacks and 47 percent of ...

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