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A look at the dangers and possible causes of gangs and teenage delinquency including over-crowded and under-funded schools with few after-school activities and over-worked parents who have little time to spend with their children.

A look at the dangers of gangs and adolescent delinquency focusing on a young man who hit a policeman with a car he had just stolen. He soon finds himself in the court system but the film focuses on the social causes of delinquency including over-crowded and under-funded schools with few after-school activities and whose over-worked parents have little time for them.—garykmcd

This documentary short examines the adolescent population, of which an alarming two per cent are delinquent. Suggested problems are over-crowded and under-staffed schools, and households with both parents working. After showing a dramatization of what happens when a delinquent youth steals a car and runs over the town's favorite police officer, the court system is also shown to be a problem. The courts, according to this movie, are wrong to try such youths as adults, because it is obviously the failings of schools and parents which cause kids to go bad. The movie then suggest town meetings and team organizations for the kids, because as the movie says, "Any kid would rather be in a team than a gang!"—Stacia Kissick <srm12@ksu.edu>