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Died. Eleanor Glueck, 74, Harvard criminologist and a pioneering theorist on the causes of juvenile delinquency; in Cambridge, Mass. Working with her husband Sheldon, a law professor at Harvard, Mrs. Glueck was among the earliest collectors of statistical data on crime in the U.S. The Gluecks spent more than four decades attempting to reduce typical criminal patterns to scientific terms. Out of their work came scores of books and articles stressing the importance of family environment in preventing juvenile delinquency. Their most publicized effort was the much-criticized Glueck Social Prediction Tables, by which future lawbreakers could ostensibly be spotted...
There was another death in the Harvard community this week. Eleanor T. Glueck, a retired research associate in Criminology at the Law School, was found dead in her home Monday...
Eleanor Touroff Glueck, lifetime partner with her husband in pioneering the study of crime and delinquency at the Law School, was found deed yesterday morning at her home...
Cambridge police said yesterday that Sheldon Glueck. Pound Professor of Law, Emeritus, found his wife, face down in their bathtub at about...
...Glueck retired as a research associate in Criminology at the Law School in 1964 after 36 years on the staff. Her husband became Pound Professor of Law, Emeritus, in 1963. Both continued active research after their retirements...