SOCI 2520 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Hannibal, Main Source, Training Rules
27 Nov 2016
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Eight promising young men were some of the most delinquent boys at hanibal high school. Saints were constantly occupied with truancy, drinking, wild driving, petty theft, and vandalism. Not one was officially arrested for any misdeed during the two years chambliss observed them. However, six lower-class white boys known as the roughnecks were constantly in trouble with police and community even though their delinquency was equal with that of the saints. The ai(cid:374)ts" p(cid:396)i(cid:374)(cid:272)ipal dail(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:396)(cid:374) (cid:449)as (cid:449)ith getti(cid:374)g out of s(cid:272)hool as ea(cid:396)l(cid:455) as possi(cid:271)le. By midnight on fridays and saturdays the saints were usually thoroughly high, and one or two of them were often so drunk they had to be carried to the cars. The saints were highly successful i(cid:374) s(cid:272)hool. The a(cid:448)e(cid:396)age g(cid:396)ade fo(cid:396) the g(cid:396)oup (cid:449)as (cid:862)b,(cid:863) (cid:449)ith t(cid:449)o of the (cid:271)o(cid:455)s ha(cid:448)i(cid:374)g (cid:272)lose to a st(cid:396)aight (cid:862)a(cid:863) a(cid:448)e(cid:396)age. Almost all of the boys were popular and many of them held offices in the school.
