ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the members of socially organized activities, through their practical reasoning, seek order in their perception and interpretation of an environment of objects to articulate the particulars of an unfolding action scene with some general policy or rule. The study challanges the conventional view which assumes "delinquents" are "natural" social types distributed in some ordered fashion and produced by a set of abstract "pressures" from the "social structures." The police, like all members of a society, operate with background expectancies and norms or a "sense of social structure" that enables them to transform an environment of objects into recognizable and intelligent displays making up everyday social organization. The situation in City B was linked to the mayor's office and the Chief of Police, favoring the Captain of Detectives' interest in controlling juvenile investigations.
