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DIED. Sheldon Glueck, 83, Polish-born Harvard law professor and criminologist; in Cambridge, Mass. Glueck and his wife Eleanor, who also taught at Harvard, developed "social prediction tables" for determining the delinquency potential of youths. They used 40 factors-including maternal affection, family cohesiveness, even body type-to pinpoint future troublemakers as early as age six. Though the technique was criticized because it could be used to prejudge young people, tests showed it to be highly reliable...
Albert M. Sacks, dean of the Law School, said yesterday that Glueck was a friendly and compassionate man as well as internationally famous. "He took a warm and personal interest in young faculty members, including myself," Sacks said...
...Glueck also served as official U.S. delegate to the International Prison Congress in Prague in 1930 and in Paris in 1950. He was also a member of the Advisory Committee on Rules of Criminal Procedure of the U.S. Supreme Court and the head of the National Crime Prevention Institute...
Lloyd E. Ohlin, Pound Professor of Criminology, said yesterday no one has conducted as thorough an experiment in the field of criminology as Glueck's delinquent study...
...Glueck received the Isaac Ray Award of the American Psychiatric Association in 1961. He and his wife received the August Vollmer Award of the American Society of Criminology, the Gold Medal of the Institute of Criminal Anthropology and the University of Rome and the Beccaria Gold Medal of the German Society of Criminology...