Max, 20, in the workshop room at the detention centre for juvenile delinquents in Düsseldorf. He is cooped up here for 4 weeks due to several repeated crimes like driving without license and hotting up his moped. The programme tries to show the teenagers what they would face, if they continue committing crimes. It also includes counselling.

Axel, 17, is being lifted through the spider web, a game from adventure based learning. Each of the 19 teenagers from the vocational school class from Ravensburg have to get through the net without touching any strings. Otherwise, all of them have to start over again. The game is meant to strengthen team effort and foresighted thinking.

A lot of the one-on-one counselling programmes for troubled teenagers involve animal therapy or being on some remote place. They are often on farms to get away from former peers and from a hostile urban landscape. Felix, 15, is holding a chicken to make it fly at his foster family in Userin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Vanessa, 15, on the trampoline in her one-on-one counselling programme abroad called 'Project Husky'. Compared to many other institutions and projects, the teenagers have a lot of freedom in their one-on-one counselling programme in the Swedish outback.

Tim, 17, is walking his rounds in the courtyard of the juvenile detention centre in Düsseldorf, every day 30 minutes of Rundgang. He has been sentenced for four weeks as a warning. On that day, he received a letter from his girlfriend saying that she cheated on him.

Max, 20, in his cell at the juvenile detention centre in Düsseldorf. He is cooped up here for 4 weeks due to several repeated crimes like driving without a license and hotting up his moped. The programme tries to show the teenagers what they would face, if they continue committing crimes and also includes counselling.

The youth office has become aware of Jennifer, 15, because she cut herself with a razor-blade Her friend did it and she wanted to try it too. She was told, that after three months in the clearing place she can go home again. Now she has been there for more than nine months. Your youth office believes, that she is not yet ready. Her mother tells her the same.

Niko, 13, on an Island pony from his foster family in Tröbsdorf. In the beginning, his parents have been against the proposal of the youth office, but then agreed. It may be that he remains up to the age of majority in this or any other project. However, should he get back home, Niko will try to get along better with the life partner of the mother. According to Niko, he was the main reason for the clash with the family, as they have had argues all the time. Niko's biological father got divorced and when he got together with his new girlfriend, he had to opt for Niko or her. Since then, Niko has only his father's phone number. From the internet. He visits his mother every 2 months.

Hannes, 14, Marcel, 17, Dastan, 15 und Jan, 15, look over the river Rhein, the boarder between Germany and France during a canoe trip. They are waiting to get picked up to get back to the tent on a camping site in France, where they have a two-day holiday. At the Heinrich-Wetzlar-Haus at the Schloss Stutensee, they are kept locked away for several months with other young offenders to avoid remand in custody while they wait for their trial. This programme of the youth service aims at trying to work in a positive way with them instead of becoming badly influenced during remand in custody.

Sebastian, 19, is having a break from chucking wood. On a hut in Austria, several teenagers from intensive social education measures from the agency 'Phöinix' can earn some extra pocket money by helping to prepare wood for the winter.