Different from majority of crimes which enjoy a strong cluster of consensus while committed by grown-up people, delinquency is in fact relatively subjective in the eyes of juvenile community. It is possible what others perceive certain behavior as delinquency, it might not be perceived the same way by other young people.
In order to understand the meaning of deviant behavior taken by young people and how that is understood by them, the writer had conducted research covering a group of youth. The writer concludes herewith that the difference of meaning is clear and young people tend to follow behavior they had perceive as positive.