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Work of Darkness, by Jack Karney.279 pp. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. $3.50

“Juvenile delinquency” is rapidly becoming another of those catch-all, amulet phrases—“virus” is another— with which we comfortably muddle our understanding of afflictions which may originate in our own flaccid will-power as much as the “age,” or “society,” or the “weather.”