Word: gluecks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...test which made predictions of such amazing accuracy was developed at Harvard Law School by a husband-and-wife team, Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, and Eleanor T. Glueck, research associate in criminology...
...Gluecks have spent more than 30 years in research which has earned them a reputation as the world's leading experts on juvenile delinquency. They have also gained great prominence as criminologists; Professor Glueck has done especially renowned work in criminal law and war crimes...
...many years, a heated dispute has raged among sociologists concerning the causes of adult crime and juvenile delinquency. "Environment," claimed some. "Heredity," instead others. The astounding accuracy of the Glueck's prediction charts suggests that both heredity and environment contribute to delinquency...
...Glueck Social Prediction Chart, probably the most realistic appraisal of the background of delinquency yet made, is based on these factors...
...Glueck's most famous work, Unravelling Juvenile Delinquency, they established a Social Prediction Table in order to predict which youngsters will become delinquents. Validations of this table are expected to be published this summer. In later studies, especially those which were follow-ups of the cases in Unraveling, the Gluecks pinpointed several family and environmental factors which distinguished those boys liable to get into trouble...