Question 7```Delinquency describes actions that would not be crime if performed by adults. If a young person perform one of such actions, then he has committed a crime. Delinquency is one of several status offences that can be committed only by people in particular stations of life as determined by age, profession of a person's role in society. For young people, such offences include drinking, driving and smoking under-age. Usually, they are of perhaps only to the extent that they help to preserve some of the good things of life for the exclusive enjoyment of the adult world. Delinquency is therefore, a weapon forged in adult minds and directed by adult hands against young people. It is borne out of envy, adult pride and intolerance. If the world changed overnight and the responsibility to make and enforce laws fell on juvenile shoulders, the adults actions now freely committed in them```
```Delinquency describes actions that would not be crime if performed by adults. If a young person perform one of such actions, then he has committed a crime. Delinquency is one of several status offences that can be committed only by people in particular stations of life as determined by age, profession of a person's role in society. For young people, such offences include drinking, driving and smoking under-age. Usually, they are of perhaps only to the extent that they help to preserve some of the good things of life for the exclusive enjoyment of the adult world. Delinquency is therefore, a weapon forged in adult minds and directed by adult hands against young people. It is borne out of envy, adult pride and intolerance. If the world changed overnight and the responsibility to make and enforce laws fell on juvenile shoulders, the adults actions now freely committed in them```
In the view of the writer, drinking under-age is an offence because
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