ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the Norton Street Gang. In the Norton Street Gang, leadership was well developed. The gang members might have gone to the Norton Street Settlement House. The leaders were good bowlers; they were also good boxers. They were particularly careful to return favors, so careful indeed that the followers got more money from the leaders than they ever returned. The leaders were also fair and just in their decisions. Long John's position among the Nortons was similar to that of the decayed aristocrats within the class structure of a nation. The boys' gang is a natural phenomenon of adolescence, at least in America. It springs up in every community. Some of the Nortons had hardly any associates outside the group. In the dynamic relations between interaction, sentiment, and activity, the people can follow the process of elaboration, or "build-up" in the internal system.
