The Saints And Roughnecks Analysis

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“The Saints and Roughnecks” by Williams J Chambliss In this Article by Williams J Chambliss he talks about two groups of gangs saints and roughnecks. Saint were seen in society as a respectable bunch of boys that community think they will grow up to be quite successful in life. The other group known as the roughnecks were acknowledges as delinquents by everyone and was not accepted to even pass high school. Both boys of groups were involved in many different kinds of criminal offenses. The saints were eight teenagers’ ages between 16-19 and they all were well financially supported. They were good in school and community sees them as a hardworking guys. If they were failing in school teachers would always give them second

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