Two neighbourhoods have similar limited access to legitimate opportunities. In one, established illegal businesses provide opportunities to make money through crime. In the other, there are few organized crime enterprises, but violent groups offer opportunities to gain status and prestige. How would differential opportunity theory explain the likely difference in deviance between the two neighbourhoods?

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Different forms of deviance may develop because access to particular illegitimate opportunities also varies across social environments.

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The neighbourhood with violent groups should produce less deviance because status and prestige are not institutionalized goals.

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Deviance should occur only in the neighbourhood with organized criminal businesses because financial gain is the only relevant illegitimate opportunity.

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Both neighbourhoods should produce the same forms of deviance because access to legitimate opportunities is equally limited.

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Differences between the neighbourhoods can only be explained by differences in individual self-control.

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