Delinquency describes actions that would not be crimes if performed by adults. If a young person performs one of such actions then he has committed a crime.Delinquency is one of several status offer offences that can be committed only by people in particular stations of life as determined by profession or a person's role in society. For young people such offences include drinking, driving and smoking under age. Usually, they are offences only to the extent that they help to preserve some good things of life for the exclusive enjoyment of the adult world. Delinquency is therefore a word forged in adult minds and directed by adult hands against young people. It is born out of envy, adult, and intolerance. If the world changed overnight and the responsibility to make and enforce laws goes to juvenile shoulders, the adults should expect a raw deal in return.Delinquency would be certainly only to many of the adult actions now freely committed by them.2. Status offences are those that can be committed by
A. all adults B. juveniles only C. delinquent juvenile only D. specified classes of people
