The present study assessed the relationship between alienation and criminal deviance by administering Dean's Alienation Scale and a modified version of Canter's Self-reported Deviance Checklist to 113 undergraduate students of whom 40 were men. The over-all correlation was slight but further analysis showed sex differences. Alienation was moderately related to criminal deviance among men, but not among women.
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