elieves in moral validity of the law and their respect for authority. In Sleepers the boys were all deviant. One instance in particular of being deviant is stealing the hot dog. All four of the boys were laying on top of a roof on a hot summer day with nothing to do. They were all hungry and bored when they saw the hot dog vendor standing on the corner. Michael asked the boys if they wanted to steal a hot dog to get food. The boys at first did not want to do it, but then they thought about it and realized they didn’t really have anything to lose. The worst that they thought could happen was that they didn’t get any hot dogs. The plan was that one of the boys would up and asks for a hot dog. Then after he is handed the hot dog from the vendor he runs off. This leaves two options for the vendor. One, he can let boy run off with the dog. This would be good because then they would have gotten that one hot dog for free. The second option the vendor has is to chase the boy. This doesn’t sound good but it is actually better. If the vendor goes to chase him then he leaves his hot dog cart all alone for the other boys to go through and get all the free hot dogs they want. By thinking this all through the boys thought they had nothing to loss and the reward would be much greater than the lose could be. The boys Attachment factor is very low. The boys’ come from homes that are anything but perfect. For example, Michael came from a home where his father often beat up on his mother. The boys did not come from homes with strong emotional ties and affectionate relationships but rather had their stronger emotional ties within their own small group. Since they came from homes like this, their involvement with legit conventional activities were low. The boys did what they could to get out of the house and away from their homes. They had only one really legit activity, which was working at the church. The boys worked as alter boys...
