... "good life" shown in the mass media. At this point, the youth lacks the visible opportunity to have a productive path, which leads many of them to drugs (Gale, 1). Many poor inner-city youth begin delinquency with participation in the drug trade (Gale, 2). At the ages of nine and ten children are paid as much as $100 a day to serve as lookouts ... almost invariably, parents are to blame for the development of young criminals. When a child goes wrong, we almost always find that he has been exposed to neglect, unhappiness, insecurity, parental conflict, drunkenness, or other bad influence...

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