TAKE: INTERPERSONAL INGREDIENTS
* Dysfunctional Family (some elements: economically poor, single parent, abusive, lack of parental involvement, drug or alcohol abusing parent, and/or poor parental skills)
* School Failure (absenteeism, low grades, below grade level, dropout)
* Delinquent Peers (gang membership, normalization of illegal behaviors)
* Availability of Drugs and Illegal Enterprise (addictions and profits)
* Stress/Boredom (too much pressure, too few interests)
ADD: SOCIETAL INTREDIENTS
* Emphasis and High Value Placed on Capitalism (absolute quest for money and success)
* Extremes of Wealth (rich feel vulnerable, poor feel frustrated; rich feel entitled, poor feel hopelessness)
* Urban Distress, Decay, Segregation (breeding grounds for many related social problems)
* High Value on Individual Independence and Autonomy (encouragement of early independence and privacy)
* Insistence on the Right to Bear Arms (access to and availability of firearms)
* A Societal Tradition of Violence (popular cultural values support physical violence)
* A Societal Fascination With and Value of Many Law Violating Behaviors (rubbernecking the extraordinary and hero worship of certain outlaws)
* Sexual Inequality (men and women have different value and opportunity in society based on their sex)
* Early Sexuality (children having children and "oops" babies happen)
* Heterogeneity and Ethnocentrism (differences are devalued and similarities are comfortable and considered best)
* Devaluation of Adolescents/Adolescence (in our society, children don’t vote or count; ignore most of them)
* A Punitive Rather than a Preventative Orientation to Juvenile Misbehavior (ignore children until they break the law, then act offended and angry; demand that they be held responsible like adults)
MIX WELL AND BAKE IN A SLOW COOKER FOR 8-17 YEARS.
MAKES: ONE JUVENILE DELINQUENT.
SERVES: NO ONE
