The Youth Crime Plague

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has chosen scouting. As he puts it, "Any blue-eyed kid from suburbia has support from his parents and money for camping equipment. Inner-city kids don't, but we help make the experience happen. That stuff about 'On my honor, I will do my best' is beautiful —if you can make it a reality for inner-city children."

The same philosophy guides Youth Development Center No.3, which houses some 50 juveniles in a brownstone complex in Brooklyn. The kids are drilled in their responsibilities by resident counselors. The non-Freudian therapy does not permit them to blame society, family, school or friends-only themselves. They have a free will, they are told, which they should exercise.

The message came across to at least one 13-year-old boy: "I got to face up to reality," he says. "Some of the brothers in here want to play the part of the fool, saying that being here is everybody's fault but their own. But where I am is me, nobody else."

*Murder, rape, aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft.

*From the 1966 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that before a suspect can be interrogated, police must inform him of his rights to remain silent and to obtain a lawyer. More recently, the court has ruled that a youth's confession is invalid unless it is made in the presence of a parent or other 'friendly adult."