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Six example sentences with delinquent, each labelled with its topic.
The program paired each delinquent with a mentor, and researchers tracked whether steady adult attention changed later behavior.
Psychology
Victorian novelists loved the reformed delinquent, whose escape from the workhouse gave readers both adventure and a comfortable moral.
Literature
The coach took in a neighborhood delinquent, gave him a locker and a curfew, and watched him lead the team.
Basketball
The juvenile court sent the delinquent to a weekend program rather than a cell, and the file was sealed at eighteen.
Law
The 1950s film made the leather-jacketed delinquent a star, and parents everywhere worried about their sons' haircuts.
Movies
Victorian reformers built the first reformatory schools so a young delinquent would not be locked up beside adult prisoners.
History
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