The Chronic Offender

The genesis of these deaths and injuries does not lie within the conventional boundaries of medicine, for these youngsters are not ill in any definable way, nor are they doing anything which is of itself noxious. Sociological forces have caused these major and rapid changes in the mortality and morbidity of this age group, and, apart from the study mentioned, very little information exists at the present time about the way in which this has happened (Morris 1963).