Teen-Age

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Excerpt from Teen-Age: Henry Holt and Company, New York Each year in the United States about a million teen-age youths get into trouble with the police. The size of this figure is surprising, but others are more startling. Of the nearly five thousand youths between sixteen and nineteen who during 1952 reached the New York City courts, about 20 percent had had some experience with narcotics. New York City's teen-age gangs (not mere street clubs) number in the hundreds. Their violent battles cause severe injuries and deaths. We have dealt with teen-age gangs as one major phase of the juvenile delinquency problem. The method employed is dramatic narrative, to show more forcefully the life and characteristics of the gangs - and the causes for their existence. The first of three narratives portrays a "rumble" - a wild group fight - which gang youths consider the glamorous high point of their existence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.