1961 年 16 巻 p. 209-230,en245
A theory of delinquency explains why delinquency occurs frequently in “delinquent areas” and why some fall in delinquency but others do not even in the same environmental conditions. If we call the former procedure of description why delinquency occurs “conditional analysis, ” the latter will be called “mechanism analysis” which describes the differences between delinquents and non-delinquents.
The socio-cultural theories of delinquency which lay stress on the cultural transmissions or learning processes are apt to predispose on the conditional analysis, while on the other hand the psychogenic-maladaptive theories, in which emotional defects or psychological traumas have the important elements of their constructs, are disposed to follow the niechanism analysis.