Through questionnaires studies family characteristics, and nature of crime committed by boys who have had two or more court hearings, living in two inner city Detroit areas.
Data secured from in-depth interviews concern social and economic status; use of leisure; patterns of family life; attitudes toward neighborhood, and local schools; interracial contacts; political, community, civil rights involvement; work…
Finds greatest differences between deprived, largely black, and advantaged, predominantly white children in a "midwestern suburb of 60,000" relate to speech pattern-analogs, grammar, vocabulary.