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Juvenile Delinquency Background Papers

NCJ Number
78275
Date Published
1976
Length
22 pages
Annotation
This document contains summaries and highlights from seven papers dealing with various aspects of juvenile delinquency.
Abstract
The papers focus upon such subjects as delinquency in the slums, prediction of delinquency, peer influence, youth agencies, and employment. Also highlighted are the relevant relationship between delinquency and the schools, the stigma of labeling, evaluation of delinquency prevention programs, police-juvenile and police-community relations, treatment of delinquency in correctional and community institutions, and treatment in 'traditional' agencies. Other papers deal with integrating antisocial boys into a camp program, examples of Boys' Club action in delinquency prevention, size of the delinquency problem, boy-girl delinquency rates, types of offenses, delinquent gangs, and the failure of State institutions and training schools to reduce delinquency. One paper advocates a deinstitutionalization approach. The papers date from 1967 to 1974.