Get a spool of string or yarn. Each person has to answer a question of some sort when they have the string in their possession, but when they throw it …
The delinquent child is still a child.
He is a child who has not given up yet but does not know who he is.
A punitive sentence could adversely influence his future sense of himself and his behaviour.
Because it is society that has failed him and made him behave this way.
The Court should not condemn the criminal, but the social structure.