I think that based from the materials, after school programs can help stop delinquency and criminality for many reasons. Instead of being out of school and potentially hang out with the wrong people, they are forced to stay for extra time In school and focus on doing homework and create bonds with other people. These bonds can be very helpful since it can help distract children from the outside world and they will follow the teachers and view them as role models when It comes to what they should be doing after school.