Secondary Education

Abstract

Juvenile delinquency is seeded in early childhood, takes root in truancy and child street gangs at primary school, and blooms at secondary school. Some of the boys may have committed over a hundred crimes by the time they leave school, and will probably continue to do so until they are eventually sentenced to a long term of imprisonment. Some of the girls will have earned a lot of money by prostitution in their middle teens; a number of both sexes will have become regular drug users, and getting the money to buy drugs will have become the main purpose of their crime and prostitution. It must be the aim of government education policy to minimize the risk of this particular delinquent 5 per cent from descending into the spiral of decline.