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Title: Boyhood and lawlessness. The neglected girl
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: True, Ruth Smiley, 1886- Neglected girl
Subjects: Girls Boys Women Juvenile Delinquency
Publisher: (New York : Survey Associates)
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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es, or new faucets, or newgas fixtures, or perhaps all of them. The damned crooksof the neighborhood, young and old, break in and ripthem out to sell. And a certain settlement had thesame experience. When it was first opened practicallyevery removable thing in the house disappeared, in-cluding even the necessaries for meals. Here again, though such thefts are far less excusable,the boys have a definite point of view. They are quitenon-moral and have never learned to consider the ques-tion of property. Their code is the primitive code ofmight and they look upon their booty as theirs by rightof conquest. Further, the very pressure of poverty isan incentive to stealing for various ends. They arecigarette fiends—they must have cigarettes. Theyare hungry; they crave amusement, and the movinpictures mean a nickel. All these things cost money,and when one is penniless and knows no moral code and 142 /^^ . .,,:,,.,--,-^;^ ..^■■■■^^^^-^■■^ ■ Carrying Loot From a Vacant Building
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Closed by the Gangs THE CENTER OF THE PROBLEM sees ones elders acknowledging none, the temptation toadopt the tactics of the thief and the thug becomesalmost irresistible. Much that these boys think and do is the direct resultof their natural propensity to imitate, combined with thefact that they have never been taught the differencebetween childhood and manhood. Thus they learn tofight, to smoke, to drink as their elders do. Fist fightsin the street are of the most common occurrence,particularly among the. young men from sixteen totwenty years of age. To go down to the docks andfight it out is one method of settling all disputes,whether of politics, love, or personal appearance.Homeric tales are related of some of these combats.A youth of eighteen demands of a bigger man an apologyfor an alleged insult to the formers sister. The two gobehind a sandpile on the docks, where in the presenceof a large group of witnesses they fight fiercely for severalhours until both are exhausted. Gang

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