Emily P.
Mrs. Zurkowski
English 1 Greens
September 22, 2010
Gathering Information- Notes Article 2
"Juvenile Delinquency (1950s)." American Decades. Ed. Judith S. Baughman, et al. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 25 Sept. 2010.
"FBI director J. Edgar Hoover reported: "persons under the age of 18 committed 53.6 percent of all car thefts; 49.3 percent of all burglaries; 18 percent of all robberies, and 16.2 percent of all rapes."- "Judges, law-enforcement officials, psychologists, and other experts suggested a variety of causes of juvenile crime, from lack of a good home life to too much comic-book reading."
- Most people thought that juvenile delinquency was "rebel without a cause".
- During the 1950s, juvenile delinquency was a big issue.
- Society expected certain figures such as police, parents, and teachers, to become understanding of the delinquents, but also harder on them.
- People thought that the older people might consider this as a threat.
- About 6,000,000 crimes went by without being recognized by the police.
- Juvenile delinquency grew during the 1950s because of the increase of cities in the U.S.
- People thought that the increase of crimes was because people were not disciplining their children properly.
- All of this crime also happened because so many babies were born in one year, that there were many more teenagers, and possible juvenile delinquents.
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