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March 1955, Vol 89, No. 3 >
Article | March 1955

CAUSES OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY FREE

HARRY BAKWIN, M.D.
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Read in the Symposium on Emotional Problems of Children as They Contribute to Juvenile Delinquency before the Joint Meeting of the Section on Pediatrics and the Section on Nervous and Mental Diseases at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, San Francisco, June 24, 1954.


AMA Am J Dis Child. 1955;89(3):368-373. doi:10.1001/archpedi.1955.02050110434020.
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DATA ON the frequency of juvenile delinquency are necessarily inaccurate. Prominent among the uncontrollable variables are different laws in different states, changing laws in the same state, the vigilance and adequacy of the police force, and the attitude of the police and the courts. Nevertheless, according to the best available sources, juvenile delinquency is increasing in the U. S.

It is worthy of note that delinquency is prevalent despite an improvement in the general economic level, better housing, extensive slum clearance, more play facilities, and a wider application of psychiatric knowledge.

PERSONALITY AND BEHAVIOR OF THE DELINQUENT BOY  A composite picture of the type of youngster who becomes delinquent has been presented by Drs. Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck.1 Their observations were based on a comparative study of 500 delinquent and 500 nondelinquent boys varying in age from 11 to 17 years. The individual boys were matched for age, ethnic

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Glueck, S., and Glueck, E. T.: Delinquents in the Making: Paths to Prevention , New York, Harper & Brothers, 1952;.
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Healy, W, and Bronner, A. F.: What Makes a Child Delinquent? Forty-Seventh Yearbook of the National Society for Study of Education . Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1948;, p. 30.
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Bovet, L.: Psychiatric Aspects of Juvenile Delinquency , World Health Organization, Monograph Series, No. (1) , Geneva, 1951;.
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Teuber, H. L., and Powers, E.:  Evaluating Therapy in a Delinquency Program, in Psychiatric Treatment , A. Res. Nerv. & Ment. Dis., Proc. 31:138, 1951;.
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Margolin, J. B.; Roman, M., and Harari, C.: Reading Disability in the Delinquent Child—a Microcosm of Psyohosocial Pathology, read before the Annual Conference of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, New York, March 13, 1954.
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Reinemann, J. O.:  Juvenile Delinquency in Philadelphia and Economic Trends , Temple Univ. Law Quart. 20:1, 1947;.
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Lander, B.: Towards an Understanding of Juvenile Delinquency , New York, Columbia University Press, 1954;.
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Tappan, P. W.: Juvenile Delinquency , New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1949;.
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Powers, E., and Witmer, H.: An Experiment in the Prevention of Delinquency , New York, Columbia University Press, 1951;.
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Hoover, J. E.: United Press Rep., Nov. 9, 1953.
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Meyer, A. E.: The Washington (D.C.) Post, Dec. 6, 1953.
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High Points: Publication of the Board of Education of the City of New York 36:5, 1954.

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References

1 +
Glueck, S., and Glueck, E. T.: Delinquents in the Making: Paths to Prevention , New York, Harper & Brothers, 1952;.
2 +
Healy, W, and Bronner, A. F.: What Makes a Child Delinquent? Forty-Seventh Yearbook of the National Society for Study of Education . Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1948;, p. 30.
3 +
Bovet, L.: Psychiatric Aspects of Juvenile Delinquency , World Health Organization, Monograph Series, No. (1) , Geneva, 1951;.
4 +
Teuber, H. L., and Powers, E.:  Evaluating Therapy in a Delinquency Program, in Psychiatric Treatment , A. Res. Nerv. & Ment. Dis., Proc. 31:138, 1951;.
5 +
Margolin, J. B.; Roman, M., and Harari, C.: Reading Disability in the Delinquent Child—a Microcosm of Psyohosocial Pathology, read before the Annual Conference of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, New York, March 13, 1954.
6 +
Reinemann, J. O.:  Juvenile Delinquency in Philadelphia and Economic Trends , Temple Univ. Law Quart. 20:1, 1947;.
7 +
Lander, B.: Towards an Understanding of Juvenile Delinquency , New York, Columbia University Press, 1954;.
8 +
Tappan, P. W.: Juvenile Delinquency , New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1949;.
9 +
Powers, E., and Witmer, H.: An Experiment in the Prevention of Delinquency , New York, Columbia University Press, 1951;.
10 +
Hoover, J. E.: United Press Rep., Nov. 9, 1953.
11 +
Meyer, A. E.: The Washington (D.C.) Post, Dec. 6, 1953.
12 +
High Points: Publication of the Board of Education of the City of New York 36:5, 1954.

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