Target Delinquency - The World of Billy Joe

Duration: 0:29:32

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Produced by KUHT and presented by the Greater Houston Action for Youth Project, this film was part of a juvenile delinquency prevention program in Houston and Harris County. A drama made to bring awareness to a growing delinquency problem in Houston, the film presents both sides of several families struggling with miscommunication and misunderstanding amongst the members. The film explores reasons for the teenagers' drive to test the limits of authority, which they express through truancy, defiant attitudes, and illegal behavior, and the parents' feelings of helplessness to stop it.