The report says 'six per cent of young people aged ten to 19 are classified as belonging to a delinquent youth group'.

Delinquent youth were neither compelled nor committed to their delinquent actions, but were simply less receptive to other more conventional traditions (1964:28).

While conducting his studies with delinquent youth, he found that a negative tag or label often contributed to further involvement in delinquent activities.

Meanwhile, new developments in theories of caring for and reforming delinquent youth led to a reappraisal of current institutional methods.

Thus, delinquent youth were drifting between criminal and non-criminal behaviour, and were relatively free to choose whether to take part in delinquency.