Excerpt from The Making of the Criminal
May find themselves not only cut off from all that makes life dear to the more fortunate, but plunged in actual hopeless misery. Advice and interference, when forthcoming at all, are likely to be resented unless accompanied by much tact, and many a lad will rather sink in the mire than pull himself up by grasping a hand he regards with suspicion. The usual argument that at this age a youth is old enough to look after himself does not meet the case, for, even if he is, it is not easy to discover how he is to do so without money, home, friends, work, or decent clothes in which to seek work. Boys who are predisposed to a criminal career are, as a rule, backward and stunted in body and mind, and to regard them as adults because they are over sixteen is the height of stupidity.
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