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...Each of these original studies uncovered facts that were more and more disturbing to more and more people," Mrs. Glueck, now a research associate at the Law School, said recently. For, instead of finding that the penal system was turning out permanently reformed criminals as was expected, the Gluecks discovered that about 80 per cent of the adult male offenders released, continued to disobey the law and about 88 per cent of the juvenile delinquents recidivated within five years after their dismissal...
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...
These discoveries disproved several popular fallacies about the causes of juvenile delinquency; for example, the idea that delinquents are physically unhealthy children. The Glueck's findings show that, if anything, the delinquents were in better health than the non-delinquents: 91 per cent were rated in good health as compared with 88 per cent of the non-delinquents, according to a standard medical examination...
...result of the application by Thompson to girl delinquents is unusual since all of the 50 girls would have been identified as potential offenders. Mrs. Glueck offers the explanation that the social pathology in the background of delinquent girls is far worse than in the background of boys. "Girl offenders are not brought to court unless they are really, seriously delinquent," she said...
Some critics claim that the groups tested with the SPT have been too small to be definitive. The Glueck's, however, feel that since all the experiments have pointed in the same direction, it must be concluded that "we are on the track of a useful device...