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Chapter 22 THE DELINQUENT CHILD The Chapter at a Glance Delinquent children are economic burden. Causes of delinquent behavior. Juvenile delinquency and the school. Retardation and backwardness. Poor scholarship and failure. Truancy and juvenile delinquency. General attitude towards school. Suggestions for the teacher. Need for prevention of delinquency.             Minor anomalies and oddities of behavior, if left unnoticed and un-remedied during early infancy, are liable to develop into serious anti-social and delinquent habits and traits in later life. How easy it is to uproot early behavioral deviations and set the child on the road to balanced and healthy adulthood! How irksome and difficult it is to rehabilitate the unguided grown up who has hardened himself into delinquency and crime! Delinquent Children are Economic Burden             From the economic point of view and from the larger con­siderations of general welfare too, the presence of