Sentence examples for acts of delinquency from inspiring English sources

'This march is neither a provocation nor a demonstration of force, but a republican response to acts of delinquency,' he said.

Antonio Bazo, the president of the workers' committee of Lipasam, condemned the fires as criminal acts of delinquency and denied that employees of his company were responsible for any of them.

Take thousands of bright young things with too much time on their hands, itching to achieve, amuse and misbehave, and splendid acts of delinquency will follow.The best colleges strive to out-prank one another.

The home, Stephen's House at the New York Foundling, was part of the Administration for Children's Services Close to Home program, which gives juveniles from New York City arrested on acts of delinquency — ranging from turnstile jumping to robbery — an opportunity to serve their sentences in rehabilitative facilities closer to their families, instead of upstate.

(2005 p.37) Indeed, conduct disorder may be expressed in the form of acts of delinquency which end with the adolescent appearing before the courts.

But new research suggests it also has a dark side: Young women with higher emotional intelligence are more likely to commit acts of delinquency, finds a study recently published in the Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology.

O'Hara, Mr. Wolff said, was kicked out of boarding school for drinking too much, an act of delinquency that enraged his physician father on the grounds that it sullied the family's name.

But we are not very good at looking at a group of adolescents who have committed bad acts, whether of delinquency or crime, and identifying those kids who are going to be career criminals.

Instead, it was seen as an act of juvenile delinquency.

The perpetrators (who had, among persistent acts of vandalism and delinquency, previously attacked another child, and tried to push yet another into the path of a car) lured the victims, aged nine and 11, on to wasteground.

Her research interests include the development of delinquent behavior and risk factors of delinquency.