The first two research questions that Ageton and Elliott addressed in their article, “The Effects of Legal Process on Delinquent Orientations,” which asked whether legal treatment created or promoted an increase in deviant/delinquent behavior and how strongly other extra-legal factors affected the effect of legal proceedings (Ageton, 1974:89). Their data came from an earlier six-year study of delinquency and dropout rates in eight California schools; were going to take this data set and obtain several relevant variables on self-perceived delinquency identified by the authors as "delinquent orientation" (Ageton, 1974:90). This measure of “delinquent orientation” was measured using a scale developed from the California Psychological Inventory identified by Gough (1960) to identify how the individual views himself or herself; the authors rely on Gough (1960) to demonstrate that delinquent youth score lower on the scale than nondelinquent adolescents and therefore it is used as a measure of delinquency during the six-year longitudinal study (Ageton, 1974:90). In this study ...