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...Youth Board studied the entering classes of two Bronx elementary schools with the factors recommended by the Glueck chart and found that the careers of the students agreed exactly with the chart's predictions...
...predictability chart to determine juvenile delinquency potential in children under six years of age compiled by Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck, respectively, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law and research assistant in Criminology, has proven almost 100 per cent accurate, according to a New York Youth Board Survey...
...York test case, eight of the 223 children studied became definitely delinquent, 13 had been involved in fairly persistent delinquency, and six were showing pre-delinquency signs. At the beginning of the study, the Glueck chart predicted that 186 of the boys had "little probability of becoming delinquents...
Brought up in the same tenement, one boy ends in the electric chair, another in the governor's mansion. Why? For more than three decades, the mystery has been probed by Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck, Harvard Law School's famed husband-and-wife criminologist team. The Glueck (rhymes with look) team has published three near classics on the subject: 500 Criminal Careers, One Thousand Juvenile Delinquents, Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency. Last week the Gluecks published their latest study: Predicting Delinquency and Crime (Harvard University; $6.50). Its startling premise: criminal behavior can be forecast almost as accurately as an insurance...
Root of the Glueck system is indeed an actuarial method. After gathering elaborate statistics on thousands of criminals, the Gluecks have isolated key factors that tip off the future behavior of men, women or children with a criminal bent. Result: with the Gluecks' "prediction tables," judges, policemen and social workers have "a promising path through the dense forest of guesswork, hunch and vague speculation concerning theories of criminal behavior...