Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like the characters in Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub, we're merely changing our garb to suit the spirit of our age...
...couple's most famous study, published in Unravelling Juvenile Delinquency, (1950) was their first project done with a control group of non-offenders. Five hundred delinquents and 500 non-delinquents ranging in age from 11 to 17, were matched case for case by age, residence in underprivileged areas, ethnic origin, and intelligence level. The Gluecks systematically compared 402 factors in the youths' family and home backgrounds, school history, leisure-time and interests. Their development health history, physical condition and body structure, underlying personality, temperamental traits, and the quality of their intelligence were also recorded...
...fact to come out of the study for Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, was that half of the delinquents had been less than eight years old when marked signs of their antisocial tendencies first became evident, and nine-tenths of the 500 had manifested these tendencies before reaching 11 years of age. This new knowledge, coupled with the previous discovery that about 75 per cent of adult offenders had been juvenile delinquents, made it clear that community effort should be directed toward very young children, those less than seven years old, if juvenile delinquency is to be reduced significantly...
Another test of the SPT's validity was made in 1954, when the Douglas A. Thom Clinic for Children in Boston, applied it to 57 boys ranging in age from 6 to 12 years, who had been treated for aggressive, destructive, anti-social behavior. The scorings made by the clinic psychologist indicated that 823 per cent of these boys, at the age of six, would have been clearly identified by the test as potential offenders...
...This was only the second application of the test to girl delinquents. The first had been done by the Jewish Board of Guardians, in 1953, on 150 unmarried mothers, whereby it was found that 81 per cent of the women would have been correctly identified at the age...