Word: gluecks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Upon graduation from Stanford in 1952, McCord came to Harvard to work with Professors Sheldon Glueck and Gordon Allport. Shortly after his arrival he became a section man in Social Sciences 6, later directed a section Social Sciences 112--Human Relations. He received his Ph. D. in 1955, and since then has been teaching courses in Criminology, in Modern Social Thought, and seminars on group conflict and theories of conscience. In addition to his teaching, he has handled extensive administrative jobs, at present being Assistant Secretary of General Education and Head of the Board of Tutors in Social Relations...
...addition, Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, and Eleanor T. Glueck, Research Associate in Criminology, have been partially supported by Foundation funds. They have been assisting the Youth Board Research Institute of New York in a study of methods of early indentification and treatment of potential delinquents...
...weapon in the fight against juvenile delinquency may well emerge from the researches of Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, and Eleanor T. Glueck, research associate of Criminology, concerning the prediction of juvenile delinquency in young children...
There has been a certain amount of "retrospective" validation of the Table, i.e., of selecting known criminals and looking back to see whether their early home life would have given them a high score on the Glueck test. In 1952 a study of 100 delinquent Jewish boys in New York State indicated that 91 per cent of the group would have been identified earlier by the Glueck test. And it is indicated that the test applied to different races. Similar tests in Massachusetts and New Jersey also seemed to uphold the Social Prediction Table...
Dangerous Import. When the rabbis refused to give way, Premier Ben-Gurion stepped in, told Jerusalem's Mayor Gershon Agron to see that Glueck's plans were approved immediately. Last week the Orthodox bowed to the inevitable, granted Glueck his building permit...