CHAPTER V AGE AND CRIME

The inexperience of youth--The training of boys--Case of a truant--Another case--Intractability--The foolishness of parent and teacher--The absence of mutual understanding-- Recreation--Malicious mischief and petty theft--The cause thereof--The need for instructing parents--Pernicious literature--The other kind--The modern Dick Turpin--The boy as he leaves school--Amusements--Repression-- Blind-alley occupations--The adolescent--Physical strain of many occupations--Unequal physical and mental development--The street trader--Hooliganism--Knowledge and experience--The perils of youth--Old age 117-139