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- Title
The Delinquent and Community Values.
- Authors
Studt, Elliot
- Abstract
The article focuses on the problem of the delinquent in relation to community values must begin by recognizing two major sources of delinquent behavior. There are two major sources of delinquent behavior. One is the traditionally diagnosed intrapsychic disorder within the individual stemming from family experiences and resulting in superego defect. The other is a group response to problems resulting from a social structure which inadequately provides support for value-oriented behavior to a large number of the youth. This is not to say that both factors may not be effective at the same time in determining individual behavior. It is to say that the emotionally disturbed delinquent is seldom found to be a functioning member of the delinquent group and that there is a far larger number of adolescents with potentiality for healthy maturation who participate in delinquent behavior as a part of groups than we have realized. Many people who work with delinquents on the official case loads have come to believe that group rejection of a value system whose rewards are essentially unobtainable causes a far larger proportion of delinquent behavior than most social workers have believed.
- Subjects
JUVENILE delinquency; SOCIAL values; JUVENILE offenders -- Social aspects; SERVICES for juvenile offenders; SOCIAL structure; SOCIAL workers
- Publication
Social Work, 1956, Vol 1, Issue 4, p26
- ISSN
0037-8046
- Publication type
Article