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1920 Boston Daily Globe 14 Dec. 18/4 At the round table discussion the ‘Needs of the Pre-Delinquent Boy and Girl’ was discussed by Miss Anne P. Hincks of the Bethesda Society.

1977 M. Edelman Polit. Lang. iv. 69 Affluent adults may be ‘predelinquent’ or ‘prepsychotic’; but it is not behavior that governs the connotations of these terms, but, rather, the statistical chances for a group and the belief that poor children are high risks.

2004 Roanoke (Virginia) Times (Nexis) 24 Apr. b7 We will target at-risk youth and those who already have exhibited predelinquent behavior and steer them into productive activities.

1932 R. H. Gault Criminology c. 446 As time goes on such a record will prove to be invaluable in making the diagnosis both of delinquents and pre-delinquents.

1997 Social Forces 76 121 Pre-delinquents do not reveal a despair or distress born of a disjunction between their economic aspirations and expectations.