Delinquency - Subcultural Leadership: A Study of the Amenability to Casework Treatment of Five Peer–Chosen Leaders, Lincoln Hall, Lincolndale, New York, 1959-1960
Abstract
Juvenile delinquency has been a problem of long standing on the American scene. This fact is especially true in areas of high social and geographical mobility, where the family life patterns of large numbers of people and especially the wave of immigrants, second and third generations, are placed under stress by processes of adjustment. Traditional roles of family members are divested of significance от made impossible to fulfill. Old values and goals clash with often contrary and contradictory values and goals. The processes of accomodation, acculturation and assimilation do not occur in a vacuum. They have a tremendous impact on the people they envelop. An understanding of juvenile delinquency, let alone any social problem, should not be attempted without first approaching the cultural processes that accompany them. The delinquent is socially and psychologically a product of a long multidimensional history, so that any approach to delinquency must be multidimenstional. For example, we cannot expect that forestry camps, a curfew for adolescents, or a fine for parents of delinquents will solve the problem. Rather, the problem to begin to be solved should be approached from many areas. One important area that should not be overlooked is concerned with the psychodynamics of family life. Children are born into a family. Through their parents they receive their physical and constitutional make-up; they receive a unique heredity because no one existed before them with this particular gene combination. From a theological point of view, the soles they received are unique too, because we know that God always creates in a unique manner. However, to overlook the psychological aspects of the child such as the unconscious is to deny him part of his existence. Delinquent children for diverse reasons manifest symptoms of an anti-social character, making it impossible for them many times, to remain in the community.
Subject Area
Educational leadership|Individual & family studies
Recommended Citation
Favale, Anthony J, "Delinquency - Subcultural Leadership: A Study of the Amenability to Casework Treatment of Five Peer–Chosen Leaders, Lincoln Hall, Lincolndale, New York, 1959-1960" (1960). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31050507.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31050507
