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Juvenile Delinquency

88 Citations1963
R. F. Barbour
Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Journal

The need, above all, to face some of the problems of today, increasing alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and road accidents, and he thought that the ate and public bodies should take a more practical part in their solution.

Abstract

p0rnrnenting on the Presidential Address at the B.M.A. meeting last summer: "Mr. lJaSer emphasised the need, above all, to face some of the problems of today, increasing *sure, alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and road accidents, and he thought that the ate and public bodies should take a more practical part in their solution. His implied Ceptance of the need for partnership between the State and the profession in social ^ inning is something which is by no means universally accepted." , ,n situations of equal stress it is often constitution, influenced by early upbringing, ^ich decides whether one acts out or inhibits; the former may end in losing one's ttiper, the latter may result in increased peristalsis or indigestion. Either physical j^Ptoms or anti-social behaviour may arise if one is in a frustrating situation. The ?Undary line between naughtiness and illness is not the clear thing our fore-fathers