Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile Delinquency C hild is the father of Man. This line by William Wordsworth is so profound that it has made its way to the list of cherished English idioms. A paradox at first sight, but an ocean of wisdom in its import! Every person on earth is here to develop his personality. What he eventually makes of himself is a product of years and years of internal and external influences- right from his childhood to his adolescence to his youth to his greying years. Of these, it is his formative years- those during his adolescence- which prove most decisive. It is during these years that a person usually embarks upon his future path- the path that either leads him to eternal bliss or one that leads him to infernal doom. Any deviation in this age can be compared to an angular deviation- the farther the line goes, the more it distances itself from the straight path. Adolescence is a period of internal conflict... a phase wherein he is neither boy nor man. He is s