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...director of Streetcorner Research was Ralph Schwitzgebel, a former Harvard graduate student. He took over the project from its founder. Charles W. Slack, who left Harvard for an assistant professorship at the University of Alabama...
...these boys volunteer for Streetcorner Research? "Few, if any, self-respecting, serious offenders will voluntarily talk to psychiatrists, probation officers, counselors, or social workers," Schwitzgebel said. "The boys came to Streetcorner Research primarily, of course, for the money. But they also came because the job looked easy and interesting...
...success of Streetcorner Research in reducing juvenile crime by doing research on it has prompted Slack and Schwitzgebel to write a handbook called "Reducing Adolescent Crime in Your Community". The book tells how and where to set up a research laboratory, how to staff and finance it, how to get the boys to attend every day, how interviews are conducted with the tape recorder, ways to get the boys started on other activities--such as making sound recording equipment for the laboratory--and how to evaluate scientifically the influence of the laboratory in cutting crime...
...staff needn't be trained psychologists or sociologists--in fact, it's probably better if they're not. "Dr. Schwitzgebel says. "What is most important is to listen to the boy as a human being, not to preach to him. In the past year at Streetcorner Research, our volunteer experimenters have included, besides graduate students, a bank clerk, a medical doctor, a minister, a plumber, and a housewife. These volunteers are fascinated by the research and have proved successful...
...asking the boys to help find the cause and treatment of their own and others' delinquency, society is giving them attention for their abilities rather than their failures." Dr. Schwitzgebel says...