ABSTRACT
There is delinquency in all areas. It is always a question of degree. Charts and maps for New York City prepared under the writer's direction showed an irregular gradation in the number of delinquency cases between the highest and the lowest ranking areas. The gradation might well be more regular and less steep were it not for the advantage the better areas have in keeping their errant children from police notice, and from arrest when they are noticed. Conditions in areas of relatively lower delinquency but in which there has also been some increase in delinquency, present a different problem from high-delinquency areas. This chapter discusses that the differential conditions, say, between high- and low-delinquency areas of a great city not only are correlated with the volume of delinquency but also are causally related to it. High delinquency occurs in areas of squalor and sheer poverty.
