Juvenile Delinquency: A Study of the Socio-Cultural Factors in the Total Treatment of Thirteen Boys Committed to Lincoln Hall From the Fort Greene Area, Brooklyn, New York, 1958 – I960
Abstract
Background of the study.- Historically, juvenile delinquency is as old as the perennial conflict between adult authority and systems of values and the youthful strivings for independence ; the symbolic urge to try one's wings. That the structure of the value systems in the former are varied, mutated in the transition from culture to culture, made flexible beyond recognition to suit changing situations by environmental pressures and individual inner psycho-biologic conflicts, simply complicates the wider conflict. That the youthful strivings of the adolescent are accompanied by a counter inhibiting force to retain dependancy and the concomitant security, real or desired, complicates the conflict even further. Intensifying the natural phenomenon and making it more difficult to separate the component parts for examination, are the needs of the current "in group" for superiority, the situational need for group scapegoats and the mass need for catharsis, by projecting guilt to a smaller and "inferior" group.
Subject Area
Social work|Psychology
Recommended Citation
Casciato, Richard R, "Juvenile Delinquency: A Study of the Socio-Cultural Factors in the Total Treatment of Thirteen Boys Committed to Lincoln Hall From the Fort Greene Area, Brooklyn, New York, 1958 – I960" (1961). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31097039.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31097039
