ABSTRACT
My purpose in writing a book of this sort is that the pictures of delinquency that thus far have been drawn do not remind me and many others of the real things which they purport to explain. It is not that they distort reality, for all pictures do that, but that rather, in distorting reality, current pictures seem to lose what is essential in the character of the deviant enterprise (Matza, 1964, p. 2).
