Eastern Kentucky University Encompass Online Theses and Dissertations Student Scholarship January 2013 Rejecting the rejecters: The al tent effect of policy on subculture Ethan Maxwell Higgins Eastern Kentucky University Follow this and additional works at: https://encompass.eku.edu/etd Part of the Criminology Commons, Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration Commons, and the Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Commons Recommended Citation Higgins, Ethan Maxwell, "Rejecting the rejecters: The al tent effect of policy on subculture" (2013). Online Theses and Dissertations. 179. https://encompass.eku.edu/etd/179 This Open Access Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Scholarship at Encompass. It has been accepted for inclusion in Online Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Encompass. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. REJECTING THE REJECTERS: THE LATENT EFFECTS OF POLICY ON SUBCULTURE By ETHAN HIGGINS Bachelor of Science Eastern Kentucky University Richmond, Kentucky 2010 Submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School of Eastern Kentucky University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE August, 2013 DEDICATION This thesis is dedicated to those I have lost along the way ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This thesis is a concluding effort of all the help, support and guidance I have received along the way. Without the people - mentors, writers and friends - this project would not have been possible. Without the interest in my work of those closest to me my motivation may have been stripped of its perseverance and resilience, as opposed to endowed with it.