1. Juvenile Delinquency Antisocial or criminal behavior of young people
Rose by 45% between
More street gangs, muggings, and murder

3. Statistics: Delinquency
As of 1953, juveniles committed 53.6 percent of all car thefts; 49.3 percent of all burglaries; 18 percent of all robberies, and 16.2 percent of all rapes.
About 1 million teens got into some criminal trouble in 1954
DQ: What reasons account for the rise in juvenile delinquency?

5. Young people were rebelling against conformity
Blamed the rise on poverty, television, racism, and a rising divorce rate
Young people were rebelling against conformity
Crossed class and racial lines
Education system was suffering due to the baby boom
Blackboard Jungle (1955)—film depicted crime and violence in city schools

6. Symbols of Youth Rebellion
Marlon Brando in The Wild One (1953)
James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

7. Behavioral Rules of the 1950s:
Teen Culture
Behavioral Rules of the 1950s:
Obey Authority.
Control Your Emotions.
Don’t Make Waves  Fit in with the Group.
Don’t Even Think About Sex!!!

8. Social Discontent
Although the 1950s are portrayed as a decade of affluence, what social problems do you think may have existed that led to criticism of this period?

10. Jack Kerouac and On the Road Allen Ginsberg and Howl
Beatnik
Definition
Characteristics
Jack Kerouac and On the Road
Allen Ginsberg and Howl

12. 7C. Teen Culture The “Beat” Generation: “Beatnik” “Clean” Teen
Jack Kerouac  On The Road
Allen Ginsberg  poem, “Howl”
Neal Cassady
William S. Burroughs
“Beatnik”
“Clean” Teen

13. The Other America Poverty—30 million lived below poverty line by 1959
1962—Michael Harrington’s The Other America chronicled the lives of 50 million Americans living in poverty.
The “invisible” poor
White, middle-class Americans were unaware of the lives of ¼ of poor Americans

15. Social Problems Deteriorating inner cities
Whites left for suburbs—money left
Poor “ghettoes” in northern cities
Unfair treatment of Af-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans
Hispanic migration to north and southwest
Increase of unskilled labor due to automation in blue-collar field
Competition from commercial agriculture