This book consists of a series of articles by people representing the various disciplines who are concerned in the matter of dealing with delinquency in young people. The approach to the subject is simple and earnest, too superficial to be of great interest or importance to psycho-analysts but nevertheless worthy and timely in view of the great increase in juvenile delinquency. Despite a certain therapeutic naïveté, as exemplified by the idea that individual techniques might be equally applicable to groups, the whole direction of the book is worthy and the motives of the numerous contributors wholly laudable in that time and again it is made apparent that shortage of money, or staff, and in particular of suitably knowledgeable workers in the field of delinquency hampers progress. Also on the environmental side