In this chapter Anderson explains social factors. He also enlightens his readers about how delinquency is a critical communal factor thought to cause or shape delinquent behaviors. He discusses interpersonal interactions and how social bonds like families, friends, and romantic partners influence each other and how social constructs are made to stereotype certain people and neighborhoods as other. Society constructs the jobs people can or cannot obtain. Criminal justice groups view these others in one way. All factors play a significant role in producing non delinquent youth or limiting youth and propelling them into delinquency under uncontrollable circumstances. Reducing influence from the social bonds and what society deems normal would
