Superstitious Nature of Delinquent and Non-Delinquent Boys

Delinquent Boys

The theme of this book is that delinquency must be understood as a persistent subculture within the larger society of big cities.

Drug-taking in delinquent boys.

A retrospective survey was conducted on 67 boys in a London remand home during the years 1965-7 inclusive who were known to have taken drugs. The boys were divided into a "hard" and a "soft" group according to whether or not there was evidence of narcotic taking. The groups were compared and the hard group showed a significantly greater incidence of abnormal personality, family history of psych...

Smoking Habits of Delinquent Boys.

Several studies have indicated the extent of cigarette smoking amongst schoolchildren. (Bothwell, 1959; Cartwright, Thomson, and others, 1960; Jefferys and Westaway, 1961; Public Health Department, London School of Hygiene, 1959). They show that smoking often begins at the age of 10 years or less, and that from that age there is a steady increase with age in the number of children who smoke reg...

The expressed values of institutionalized delinquent boys.

Diagnostic classification of 120 delinquent boys.

Delinquency has been defined as youthful behavior that violates the law. 1 Juvenile court statistics indicate that 2.9 percent of American youths age 10-17 appear in Juvenile Court each year (excluding traffic offenses). Considering there are about 36 million youngsters in this age range in the United States,2 that means each year over a million youths are in serious trouble and appearing in co...