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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...studies uncovered facts that were more and more disturbing to more and more people," Mrs. Glueck, now a research associate at the Law School, said recently. For, instead of finding that the penal system was turning out permanently reformed criminals as was expected, the Gluecks discovered that about 80 per cent of the adult male offenders released, continued to disobey the law and about 88 per cent of the juvenile delinquents recidivated within five years after their dismissal...
Perhaps the most important fact reaped from the Glueck's study of adult offenders was that 75 per cent of them had also been juvenile delinquents. This information inspired the couple to begin their famous, very extensive study into the causes and prevention of juvenile crime. Their work has been sponsored as a permanent project by the Law School, where Glueck is Roscoe Pound Professor...
These discoveries disproved several popular fallacies about the causes of juvenile delinquency; for example, the idea that delinquents are physically unhealthy children. The Glueck's findings show that, if anything, the delinquents were in better health than the non-delinquents: 91 per cent were rated in good health as compared with 88 per cent of the non-delinquents, according to a standard medical examination...
...Gluecks also disproved the idea that glandular disturbances cause delinquency, since their staff physician found such disturbances among 32.9 per cent of the offenders and 34.3 per cent of the non-offenders. They also showed that delinquents are not more emotionally unstable than normal children. In fact, their study revealed that there was emotional weakness among 49 per cent of the delinquents as contrasted with 56 per cent of the non-delinquents...
...that half of the delinquents had been less than eight years old when marked signs of their antisocial tendencies first became evident, and nine-tenths of the 500 had manifested these tendencies before reaching 11 years of age. This new knowledge, coupled with the previous discovery that about 75 per cent of adult offenders had been juvenile delinquents, made it clear that community effort should be directed toward very young children, those less than seven years old, if juvenile delinquency is to be reduced significantly...