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...more than rare that the value of a piece of research is immediately appreciated and applied to practical affairs-the work of Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, and his wife Eleanor Glueck, a research criminologist at the Law School, is one of these few cases...
However, the most significant aspect of the reaction to the Glueck studies is that, with only two years elapsed since the publication of their first report, great interest has been shown among educational authorities throughout the country in the practical application of their theories...
Last fall the Boston School Committee unanimously approved a plan to train teachers to detect juvenile delinquency, or tendencies toward it, in grade school children. The teacher training course which will be given by the Boston Teachers College this fall is based on the method outlined in the Glueck book...
...example of this, one of the traditional explanations of the cause delinquency in the feeling of not being loved. The Glueck's study found that such a feeling existed to a marked degree in 84 percent of the delinquents, but also in 88 percent of the non-delinquents. Thus, it would appear that this feeling is one which is widespread among the children of the area studied, irrespective of their anti-social behavior. Consequently the Gluecks were forced to consider it causually neutral...
...Glueck refused to comment on the possibility of a link-up between the Danver and Brink robberies, but did admit that both showed the mark of a "master-mind...