Most people consider delinquency a crime, but it is much broader. The legal definition of juvenile delinquency is “the commission of an act by a minor child that would be considered a crime if ...
As word of devastating vandalism at Wonder Lake’s Harrison School spread through the community last week, one local resident who was appalled–but not surprised–was Betty Affield. As someone with 38 ...
Each year, the juvenile justice system spends billions of dollars to handle approximately 700,000 youths. Yet the rate of recidivism remains high and suggests that this problem and its solutions are ...
In one of the highest juvenile delinquency areas in Washington, D.C., teachers were asked to send their most anti-social youngsters to a special test center; 179 youngsters reported, and the testing ...
FARGO, N.D. -- Across the country, many states are trying to slash the number of juvenile delinquents ordered to live in correctional centers, group homes and other facilities. Supporting this push, ...
Brought up in the same tenement, one boy ends in the electric chair, another in the governor’s mansion. Why? For more than three decades, the mystery has been probed by Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck, ...