ABSTRACT
Technical feasibility consists of the learned capacity to manage the action, or behavioural component of delinquency, on the one hand, and the counteraction, or apprehensive component, on the other. Once the bind of law has been neutralized and the delinquent put in drift, all that seems necessary to provide the will to repeat old infractions is preparation. The level of proficiency implicit in the behavioural standards of sub-cultural delinquency may be easily romanticized, and correspondingly the difficulties of meeting these standards easily exaggerated. The subculture of delinquency is just such a setting. The customary precepts of sub-cultural delinquency which celebrate manliness conspire to increase the likelihood that desperation will flow from the fatalistic mood. The overall feasibility of infraction involves both a moral and technical element. The restoration of the humanistic mood—and incidentally the restoration of the moral bind that is implicit in the responsible character of the humanistic mood—may be accomplished by the commission of infraction.
