AMES, Iowa -- Chronic juvenile delinquency often leads to violent offenders. Just ask Matt DeLisi. An associate professor of sociology at Iowa State University, where he is also director of the ...

Were comic books the cause for a rising tide of juvenile delinquency in the 1940s and 1950s? Critics certainly thought so, writes David Hajdu in a new book chronicling the rise and fall of the ...

In 1954 the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency holds hearings on whether comic books inspire juvenile delinquency. A lead witness, psychologist Dr. Frederick Wertham, ...

A book which portrays the phenomenon of juvenile delinquency in Luanda Province (country's capital), by the writer and university lecturer Maria Luzia Nunes Dumbo, was launched last Thursday, for ...

For example, in "Seduction," Wertham links "Batman" comic books to the case of a 13-year-old boy on probation and receiving counseling for sexual abuse of another boy: "Like many other homo ...

Juvenile delinquency has had its greatest rate of increase in rural areas. ... Book Briefs: July 6, 1959. Edward John Carnell Bible Text of the Month: John 17:21.

EAST NORRITON – Unlike adult criminals whose faces and misdeeds are fodder for the evening news, most juvenile offenders in Pennsylvania are kept out of the media glare and play by a differen… ...