ee geetett FO age Pt A gg ea Ty Tre get grap tg tO at are! gag ag mgt gag tt ENE gy Le CGA _ ew Dey See With Prevention, Cure Program — coe 3 BO yh gl - ~ ~ ew ~ LI a Soe! ~ The Salt Lake Tribune, Si ae a dl | Ee as N Y. Battles ‘Against Teen Delinquency By ug Henrietta Leith. Associated point, youngsters under ‘get the most attention. Press Writer . . NEW YORK, Jan. 23—It was/|Te night .a A in the city, hours past youngster’ Ss bedtime. Patrolman. James, Littlefield ried to break it up’ and was “mauled, but he arrested three. © ‘They are to hatdehed: to respond, he says. At 3:15 a.m., Patrolman EdGoff told 25 While teen-age on a Street in the! | 4 ‘Bronx it was time to go home. Goff was bitten, scratched ~ and beaten. At 8.am., throughout ne (Ee back.” When Sr Beat 3 Cops.”. home In the 16-20 age situation go to a mental he were | children of Irish immigrants. group, appears is bad, he report | shows he is psychotic, he will institution. is ‘mentally retarded, If he|# will be assigned to one of the | State schools for retarded children. If he is emotionally disturbed, though not consider- with ae the youngster If the psychiatrists’ cause the law involving individual children. In the first 9 months of last year, 8,748 children under 16 were arrested, more The fight avait than half charged with felo- ‘is toughest with nies. there were 14,180: 5,814 for felonies. Sometimes, a child a youth house for The judge may decide the Bice needs institutional care. trouble, terrorizing neighborhoods and conducting open warfare with rival gangs. _ But juvenile delinquency is not limited to the gangs. There conflicts for the first might be sent to live with relatives, or occasionally to a foster home. _ are-more than’ 70 teen- more LEARN in court, he has a better than 90-50 chance of being excused jor placed on probation, If his - The answer is complicated. many atten- the second time will announce, “T asked the judge to send me - NEW YORK has a whopping Sroblem with delinquent kids. are classes get epecial Seabee use a fork. coming to | pe 5 Again the public wondered: | oe hy isn’t something done?” can ,in. they properly, make their beds and -: city, nickels. were traded for | E bold headlines: reading: which small school SOME | Erickson arrested him. | age gangs to . | | time to brush their teeth, dress ‘stick from a litter basket and||° ‘began beating the ae 1d There eyes. They go tion. the west side of Central Park. “Go on home,” he told him. “Instead the youth yanked a ag under watchful where . Eke Erickson spotted a ~ youth behaving suspiciously on Punks to|f These are not jails. The youngsters can roam about—though - : _ He arrested three. me AG 6:15 “am, Patrolman _ “Young a lad is waiting appear in Children’s Court, he |, likely will find himself in one of the city’s youth homes. “girls who were creating a disturbance director of one of the|l larger institutions, who pio- | neered in the treatment of disturbed and delinquent children, says he has given up on rehabilitation of older teen-age delinquents. ee wi At 2: 45 am., four Pueite Rican teen-agers got into a s pe prews on a subway train. ‘ward 16 ed psychotic, . By Tribune Artist juvenile gangs—aiways tough New York’s ees baa German Dick at Miller best— groups. or| problems which are likely to breed delinquency in the chil- he will. be sent to one of the privately-operated residential treatment centers in rural areas which are specially equipped 1 treat his problems. Or he could. be. ‘sent to a Eg training school. dren. _ As these people maved up -A third, the Street -Club| “More. and In five years, the number oft the economic ladder, some-- | Project, works. more experts are |B wees the teen-| coming New York youngsters. arrested one else had to take ate un- age gangs. to view the deviant |# q ‘skilled jobs.” each year has doubled, The city is fighting’ hard tol check. the problem, but its campaign is complicated, oiter confused and- disorganized. INVOLVED IS a een ation of. special courts, ‘schools, child A stud ao cently he ol die eal |. by: ‘Harvard historian: Oscar |. A field worker is assigned to each ‘gang. | .of various ages as a whole person. Experience has a them to .do so, _ Several years: ago the city|g "|Handlin | found that the gap Iti is his job to establish such was filled by ‘Negroes and} ‘a sincere relationship with the Was enraged at the wave of brutual beatings that. ended Puerto: ‘Ricans, who now com- members that, in time, he. will with the torture death of at prise about 19 ‘per: cent _ of 3 e.. able to influence them,. least one victim. The .consocial agencies, public and pri- New York’s population, The courts take over. len a victed ringleader was 18-year- ' vate organizations, treatment ‘Three state schools handling delinquent is arrested. — old Jack Koslow. and training centers, special hundreds of delinquent chilIf he’s over 16, he goes tol police, probation officers, dren from the city list half Adolescent Court. If ELEVEN YEARS earlier, a he’s under youth field. workers, and sevVv-| their’ inmates as Negro and 16 his case is handled in. Chilgee 8 worker. said the eral thousand volunteers, “ron 103td 96% Per feud tick “as en Ss. Court. boy was. seriously disturbed, : “Not even those persons most spenlnenealtiog. possibly . schizophreni¢, and | _From a treatment Biand concerned have a ‘clear pic-| New needed treatment. York’s. detttigdenny | : ture of everything that is being | program is divided ant ge tp done. Since 1956, City ee vention and cure, of New. York (CCNY): a searchers have been. trying 0} ‘The. cing youth | board. Gs in|, of prevention; the 2 evaluate the city’s juvenile charge delinquency program, and the courts oversee the cure. The board has a referral unit | Bae end of its study is pot in in every school—a detection |i™ sight. - Meantime the kids’ keep getting into trouble. More than 100 years ago the ‘chief of police of New York bemoaned “thei increasing number of vagrant, idle and vicious children of both sexes” roam- “Ing the streets. Most of them -|center which locates troubled | children, diagnoses their prob- lems, and prepares them and |Mal their families for referral to , the appropriate agency for fey treatment, ANOTHER PROJECT, Serv- | ice to Families. and Children |" wos with families that oe a |@