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How to use delinquency in a sentence

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In the past decade, on average, the rate of juvenile delinquency remained at between 10 to 14 per cent of the criminal offenses in the city.
Females conform to their peers more than do males, but there is greater social disapproval for female delinquency.
That, in our submission, did nothing to excuse the delinquency of discovery.
School drop-outs, juvenile delinquency, and gang wars were symptoms of underlying social pathology.
As the number of negative descriptive adjectives increased, so did the youths' self-reported involvement in delinquency.
More importantly, the blanket downgrade of Fitch implies an extraordinary delinquency in respect of its regulatory oversight functions.
Mr Forster said much of the present juvenile delinquency was due to children frequenting the streets with nothing to do.
But minor crimes and juvenile delinquency have pushed total crime numbers to record highs amid a long economic slowdown.
At the same time, as the arrest rate for juvenile delinquency and crime rose in 1943 and 1944, commentators accused mothers of neglect.
Children of adoption show up in disproportionate numbers in the criminal justice system and contribute to problems of juvenile delinquency.
Do you believe that juvenile delinquency would decrease if crime comic books were not readily available to children?
Violent crime, alcohol and drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, unwanted pregnancy, and poor health are the major social problems.
They are silenced and their anger is considered symptomatic of delinquency.
I find there was no delinquency in disclosure which would justify disentitling or reducing the plaintiff's right to costs.
Family variables that contribute the most to aggressiveness and delinquency include parental criminality and poor parental supervision.
He was charged in 1990 with contributing to the delinquency of a minor after being caught partially undressed with a 15-year-old girl.
There was a sentimental love for an old con, an eager romanticising of gaol and crime and social delinquency.
These programs, called Blueprints, have been shown to reduce adolescent violent crime, aggression, delinquency, and substance abuse.
Violent crime, juvenile delinquency, and alcoholism have increased significantly.
If this sort of relationship did not happen then maternal deprivation resulted which could lead to crime and delinquency.
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A probation officer in Philadelphia tells of the mother of a young deserter who could not account for her son's delinquency.
Ferrari, in his excellent work on juvenile delinquency, discusses the various motives for deception and malingering in the child.
My series on juvenile delinquency had just about doubled circulation and that gave me a deep sense of accomplishment.
This whole episode, I could see, was a perfect answer to the damnable criticisms leveled at my series on juvenile delinquency.
It is dissolved by operation of law, and by the delinquency of these institutions.
You would face your own delinquency just as bravely as you came here and faced me to-night.
The wardmote had inquest jurisdiction over immorality or bad behavior such as vagrancy, delinquency, illegitimacy, and disputes.
He is the transgressor in the first, and she is the culprit in the second delinquency.
We have of this an indication in the remarkable increase in juvenile delinquency which marked the course of the European War.
It seems that people, for the most part, are more interested in the traditional sordid-sensational type of juvenile delinquency.
There was a substantial increase in juvenile delinquency during the Second World War.
A long-term project for the investigation of juvenile delinquency in all aspects should be undertaken.
Thus, they knew that the council called was because of Nita's delinquency.
The latest research shows a welcome improvement in commercial and multifamily mortgage delinquency rates.
It was my first delinquency, and had all the poignancy of a first fault.
The commercial mortgage-backed securities delinquency rate resumed its descent in July after a brief pause in June, reported Trepp LLC, New York.
Struthers's Sunday evenings were not like a ball, and that her guests, as if to minimise their delinquency, usually went early.
Later onset of delinquency seems to reflect a temporary disposition, and thus a higher probability of refraining from delinquency and desistance during further development.
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