or mode of adjustment is contrived or hit upon by the child himself, perhaps through one or more of the familiar mechanisms of substitution, regression, displacement, compensation, rationalization and projection. If other children exhibit the same behaviour it is because they have independently contrived the same solution”.
These psychogenic theories don’t apply to all juvenile delinquency, but they offer another explanation into why and how young people join delinquent groups.
Finally on delinquent subcultures, as mentioned before on adjustment, “these problems are status problems, certain children are denied status in a respectable society because they cannot meet the criteria of the respectable status system. The delinquent subculture deals with these problems by providing criteria of status, which these children can meet. It is not, for example that