ABSTRACT
The activities of the child in the neighborhood tend to be organized around basic institutions and groupings such as the church, the school, the playgrounds, and perhaps the movie theater. In short, everything that happens on a group-wise basis constitutes part of the setting for the neighborhood stage on which the drama of socialization and education is played. The importance of the neighborhood in the conduct of the child is seen most clearly in an examination of the educational process. Since the child reflects the influences of the neighborhood, it follows that if there are differences in the adequacy of neighborhoods, these differences should be reflected in variations in rates of law violations. Another element which complicates the education of the child in the neighborhood of high rates of delinquents is the problem of leisure time. The important variable is to be found, not in the boys, but in the variations in the educational process in the neighborhood.
