Predelinquents Ten Years Later, 1950: A Statistical Follow-up Study of Eighty Social Treatment Cases Residing in the Borough of the Bronx and Handled by the Service Unit of the Juvenile Aid Bureau of the Police Department of the City of New York in 1940
Abstract
Background and Timeliness of the Study. Juvenile delinquency has always been a popular subject of interest. So much publicity has been given this topic in recent years that the public has a feeling that a sudden plague has descended upon the nation. Hundreds of books, both professional and lay, have been written about it and articles referring to it appear daily in the publicity and magazines. Observations concerning it have become platitudes in American speech. The theme recurs frequently in motion picture scenarios. Yet investigation shows that juvenile delinquency, like all social problems, has its roots in the past and the alleviation of the problem is intimately bound to the future. Juvenile delinquency as it is defined today is universal in scope, and its causes are multiferous and individualized.
Subject Area
Social work|Law enforcement|Social studies education|Criminology
Recommended Citation
Bloch, Helen Ilona, "Predelinquents Ten Years Later, 1950: A Statistical Follow-up Study of Eighty Social Treatment Cases Residing in the Borough of the Bronx and Handled by the Service Unit of the Juvenile Aid Bureau of the Police Department of the City of New York in 1940" (1951). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30724936.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30724936
