Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next comes a guillotine murder, followed in rapid succession by an icepick murder, an electrocution, and in the finale, two knifings. As the audience learns early in the show and suspects even earlier, the man responsible for all this mayhem is a crime reporter and biographer who, with an admirable collector's instinct, is creating his own Black Museum to surpass that of Scotland Yard...
This week they published their 12th book, Predicting Delinquency and Crime, a volume containing over 50, unique prediction tables to help judges, prison officials, social workers and clinicians. These tables are based on a series of statistical surveys, begun in the twenties and presented in the couple's first three books--500 Criminal careers; 500 Delinquent Women; and 1,000 Juvenile Delinquents...
Perhaps the most important fact reaped from the Glueck's study of adult offenders was that 75 per cent of them had also been juvenile delinquents. This information inspired the couple to begin their famous, very extensive study into the causes and prevention of juvenile crime. Their work has been sponsored as a permanent project by the Law School, where Glueck is Roscoe Pound Professor...
Three predictive tables were formulated from the findings in Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency. These tables were designed to make it possible to spot possible delinquents at a stage when they can be steered away from a life of crime. Of the three devices, only one, the Social Prediction Table, has been validated since its inception in 1950. The other two, which are constructed from Rorschach and psychiatric data, are not easily applied, and together do not do a better job of selecting potential delinquents than the SPT does alone...
...major part of the tables tells what factors are most important in leading men, women, and juveniles to crime. When several of these factors are present in a single case, the Gluecks maintain, a future troublemaker may often be the result...