degree. The delinquent differs from the non-delinquent in that he has frustrations, deprivations, insecurities, anxieties or mental conflicts, which differ in some degree from those of non-delinquent children (Cohen 1955 p13-15).
Cohen (1955 p16) argues, “Psychogenic theories of both classes recognize the importance of the child’s social environment in producing the character structure or the problem of adjustment, but give it relatively little weight in determining the particular manner in which it finds expression. For the first class of psychogenic theories, the Id is already there at birth in all people (the Id meaning that every human being is endowed with a fund of inborn or instinctual anti social impulses). It is criminal from the very start and never changes. What is acquired through experience is the shell of inhibition. For the second class, as a symptom