There Are No Children Here Summary

Connection: The book “There Are No Children Here” tries into the book of Juvenile Delinquency with the many events that transpired in the young boys lives with events that related to macro level theories, critical theory of labeling, juvenile justice system, and drugs and gangs. The first connection to the book is macro level theories. Macro level theories is when “theories of delinquency that focus on the social structure or the big picture of society” (Bates & Swan, 112), essentially what the theory means to say is that we can notice changes or delinquent activity based on the social location, most noticeably we can apply Social Disorganization to the book “TANCH”. Social Disorganization is the theory that some neighbor hood get so disorganized and our of control that in order to adapt to the environment people have to adapt and engage in delinquent behavior in order to be accepted into the society. We can see this in the book such as the location in the book was the ghetto os Chicago Illinois in the public housing apartments of Hery Horner, and in the character of Terence who wanted to fir in with his peers, but in order to do so he had to engage in delinquent activity, or just even the initiation or recruitment of gangs at the age
Or even the adaption to the violence of the neighborhood, such as knowing the violence and begin prepared at all time, such as the Pharoah’s teacher, who would cary her keys in her fingers ready to strike anyone who tried to mug her while she walked on the streets to her car. We can also see