The similarities and differences between academic failure and delinquency according to Siegel and Welsh are as follows. According to Siegel and Welsh, children who do poorly academically and those they call underachievers are most likely to be delinquents. It is demonstrated by both studies that academic failure is a more powerful predictive factor of delinquency when compared to belonging to an economic class, relationships with peers, and radical and ethnic origins. Studies comparing the academic record scores of offenders and non-offenders on failure rates on standardized tests and other academic measures have found that offenders have recurrent academic deficiencies compared to their counterparts and this is a condition that almost forces them to commit antisocial and delinquent acts. Siegel and Welsh further establish that academic failure and delinquency are common among chronic offenders; students who leave school after graduating from high school are less likely to resort to delinquency than those who do not. never graduated from high school, as Marvin Wolfgang Delinquency of Philadelphia reported in a birth cohort study that only 9 percent of delinquents graduated from school. In comparison, 40 percent of the prison population had 12 years of education or more, compared to 90 percent of the general population, and school experience is a very important factor in shaping a teenager's life. Siegel and Welsh confirm that academic failure is a direct cause of delinquent behavior. Emotional frustration and rejection are what children who fail in school feel. They in turn seek out like-minded companions, and together they engage in antisocial activities after being convinced themselves that they will not make it to the middle of the paper. .....in place, they are only allowed to work a minimum number of hours to have enough time to concentrate on their homework and these children are guaranteed to attend school because employing a minor child is a crime. Back to child labor who have part time jobs resorting to delinquency, unless the work is illegal but otherwise there is no chance that this child is a delinquent, he will not have time to going to school, going to work, resting, and vandalizing something all in one day, school engagement may decrease when a child is working, but again, unless it is 'illegal work, consider the situation in which he drops out of school and goes to work full time if it is illegal work, of course, only delinquent acts should be expected, but if he s This is a legal job, he is very likely to stay on the job unless he encounters a negative factor that completely changes his direction..