This Is Your FBI: The Connoisseurs of Crime

The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents This is your FBI. This is your FBI. The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Presented transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.

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Tonight, the subject of our FBI file, burglary, its title, the Conocers of Crime. Tonight's case from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation deals with criminal youth. As you listen to this story, you may well ask yourself why such an alarming proportion of those arrested today are boys and girls in their late teens and early twenties.

One reason may be that under modern conditions, the adolescent period, always a difficult one, is more of a problem today than it has ever been. During this period a youngster is in a continual struggle between two opposing impulses.

One is the desire to remain a child, the other is to become a full-fledged adult. This inner conflict is what makes adolescents so difficult for adults to handle. What the adolescent needs above all else, and so often misses in this unstable modern world, is genuine affection, real understanding and intelligent guidance from his parents.