And what seemed to have been an innocent prank has now begun to give him a character, a meaning, his experience, which he never existed for him but which now exists because society has taken a view of his act.

And here his father enters into the picture and takes him to the school, and the father chastises him and argues with him and says that he has given the family a bad name.

And this has Gramma ties his evil, and he is now at odds with his father, is at odds with the school, and as a consequence he seeks the company of those with whom he will not be at arts, and here he finds persons like himself having unfortunate experiences but who prized these experiences and as a result of it, take comfort and exchanging.

Little waywardness is such as, for example, he learns in this company of another who can steal a car.

And so he gets involved in more serious activities still not far removed from pranks, because this kind of theft is merely for fun, for joy riding and not necessarily to sell the product that he has stolen.

But here again, as he carries on his theft in the company of others who, like himself, have been somewhat estranged.

Put apart from the conventional community, is caught by the law and the law and all its majesty and discipline and sternness takes him into the courts, takes him before a special officer proceeds to make of him a record, a statistic in a world which he is a singular part, and which most others never experience, in which they never find their names.

He is getting a view of himself subtly and without even realizing it, which is created for him by the community around him, in the attitude that that community has taken toward him.

For example, here he will appear in terms of a juvenile record, as one who can be referred to on a subsequent occasion as one who has already aired as one who would later appear as a two time loser on a three time loser.

This is something which no other person but one subjected to these experience can't internalize, can take to himself.

Here is the court, and he comes before it and they're sternly and with probity is a judge.

And he admonishes him, and he and the presence of others represents society and looking down upon him and asks him why he did what he did everywhere he's called upon to explain, as if there is some very special explanation.

And in this special explanation is the ready acceptance of the notion.

Perhaps I am different.

Perhaps these things come naturally to me.

Perhaps I have found a way which distinguishes me, and I am ready to accept it and live with it and abide by it.

They don't understand me.

They don't deal with the real problems that urge and move me.

They simply tell me I am this and they must be right.

All this elaborate apparatus alienates a screen takes out of the common life of society and individual.

And finally, day after day experience after experience proceeds to systematically sophisticate this individual and make of him an accomplished offender who seeks out the finer arts, the Higher arts of Crime, one who would like to think of himself in better terms.

But what are the better terms for such an individual?

The better terms of crime, the better terms of delinquency and so on a record, a long record begins to get elaborated, and he starts out with ready to be simple acts and finally, is one day on a wanted list.

One day is a two time a three time a four time loser.

One day he has only been in a juvenile home, But then he has been in a reformatory and in a county jail and again in a penitentiary, and finally, his education is complete when he enters some advanced institution of the federal government.