In this article, the authors contrast official police records of a group of middle and upper-class "aggressive" delinquents with the records of four lower class delinquent groups. They found the law violation patterns of these groups to be generally comparable, both in terms of frequency of contact and seriousness of offense. In the context of these findings, the need for an expansion of research regarding middle and upper-class delinquency is suggested and comments are made by the authors regarding the types of research questions they consider worthy of investigation. The larger study from which this article's data were obtained was made possible by a grant from the Ford Foundation.-EDIoR.

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