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Delinquency Areas (1957-00-00)

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Dr. Dietrich Reitzes, associate professor of social psychology at the University of Indiana and a member of the US Selective Service in Felon Studies, joins Sheriff Lohman for a study of the relationship between youths neighborhood and his acts of misbehavior. Captain Boone presents another case study. The Sheriff and Dr. Reitzes discuss the problem of areas which seem to breed delinquency. Illustrations of houses in the shadow of commerce and industry, buildings in neighborhoods that are physically deteriorating and dangerous, neighborhoods where the population is in transition, where economic dependency is on relief agencies, where neighborhood disorganization is taking place, where the population of adult criminals is high and where gangs are common these are all illustrated. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)

Directors & creators

WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.)

Subjects

public broadcasting, AAPB, Juvenile delinquency, Criminology, Urban sociology, Slums, Chicago, Illinois, Cook County, Illinois, Social conditions, Poverty, Housing, Race relations, Social disorganization, Juvenile justice, Administration of, Crime prevention, Urban ecology, Homelessness, Neighborhoods, Gangs, Law enforcement, Public television, Joseph D. Lohman, Dietrich C. Reitzes, Metropolitan areas, Human ecology

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