delinquency

Converse of object

• pardon: Sir John Danvers carried to the Lords for their Concurrence, the Ordinance for pardoning the Delinquency of Mr. Coke.
• increase: Recently the psychologists and criminologists have come to admit that the absence of parental guidance contributes to increasing delinquency.
• cause: Cloward and Ohlin ( 1961 ) regard truancy as part of a wider delinquency caused by " blocked opportunity " within school.

Preposition: at

age: The report claims that an attachment to teachers at age 13 was related to lower levels of misbehavior and delinquency at age 15.

Adjective modifier

• juvenile: Children in such communities are at lower risk of teen pregnancy, child abuse, drug use or juvenile delinquency.
• youthful: The practical application of these theories in professional intervention, from youthful delinquency to entrenched criminal careers, will be examined.
• serious: By contrast, these and other factors covered by the study could not explain the difference between boys and girls in serious delinquency.
• self-reported: Thus social control theory offers a fair explanation for the results of this study of self-reported delinquency.
• moral: It seems to me an obsolete speculation, but it implies no moral delinquency.
• previous: Even relying on previous delinquency alone does not comply with EC law if there is no examination of each individual case.

Modifies a noun

• prevalence: Thus it would seem that lack of supervision is associated with higher delinquency prevalence to a certain degree.
• rate: Many credit unions have a history of poorly performing loans and high delinquency rates.
• notice: You can avoid delinquency notices and costly penalty fees by completing all reports by the required deadlines.
• level: However, Flint said it is too early to say whether delinquency levels had peaked.

Noun used with modifier

• youth: Everything was going haywire: increasing crime, youth violence, youth delinquency.
• loan: Those credit unions that adopted the village banking add-on saw a sharp decline in loan delinquency versus those that did not.
• consumer: Q. Does the Bank publish data on consumer delinquencies or consumer loan defaults.