Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents

t, and weighing up all the suggested factors, the view of the Committee is that the matter is not capable of simplification by regarding any, or even all, the causes suggested

dig below the surface or to look beyond the factors which came immediately to the mind of the writer

are closely related in time or circumstance to the actual misbehaviour. The predisposing causes are those which create an emotional maladjustment in a person and thus induce a susceptibility to the precipitating cause. For instance, a semi-nude figure

auses (whether precipitating or predisposing) and now s

as a phase or facet of juvenile delinquency, the same influences whi

y, must apply with much the same force in this Dominion as elsewhere, and to the sexual deviant as to all other juvenile delinquents. In searching for the real or substantive cause it must be borne in mi

over a wide field. In searching for the cause, and in suggesting the remedies which may be applied, the