Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week they published their 12th book, Predicting Delinquency and Crime, a volume containing over 50, unique prediction tables to help judges, prison officials, social workers and clinicians. These tables are based on a series of statistical surveys, begun in the twenties and presented in the couple's first three books--500 Criminal careers; 500 Delinquent Women; and 1,000 Juvenile Delinquents...
Three predictive tables were formulated from the findings in Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency. These tables were designed to make it possible to spot possible delinquents at a stage when they can be steered away from a life of crime. Of the three devices, only one, the Social Prediction Table, has been validated since its inception in 1950. The other two, which are constructed from Rorschach and psychiatric data, are not easily applied, and together do not do a better job of selecting potential delinquents than the SPT does alone...
...particular child has been harshly disciplined by his father, he is scored 72.5, because 72.5 per cent of the boys in the study whose fathers were always or sometimes over-strict in their discipline, were found to be delinquent. If a child scores 300 or more in the Social Prediction Table, his chances of becoming a delinquent are high...
Several retrospective validations of the Social Prediction Table have been made since its publication in 1950. The first appeared in the spring of 1952--a study made by Bertram J. Black and Selma J. Glick of the Jewish Board of Guardians in New York City...
Karl emphasized that Social Sciences 1 (Introduction to the Development of Western Civilization) has an unlimited enrollment and conflicts with few large courses. A new course, Humanities 8, "The Experience of the Drama," also has room for more students...