A Study of Twenty Cases of Male Adolescent Delinquents Referred by the Manhattan Children’s Court to Catholic Charities Guidance Institute Which Did Not Materialize Into Treatment Situations
Abstract
Background of the Study. To study the problem of juvenile delinquency is to study life itself. For the behavior of children and adolescents one soon discovers, cannot be studied in isolation any more than the leaves of a tree can be studied without reference to the tree itself. Our children live in a setting of present day, American society and their acts are in reference to this society. To understand youth one must first try to understand the multitudinous factors acting upon him.Thus the search to understand youth leads down the many biways, each of which might become a lifetime study. It leads among others into fields of biology, sociology, medicine, social work, penology and moral philosophy. It leads to the offices of psychiatrists and psychologists, to child-caring institutions and child guidance clinics, to court rooms where justices sit with varying comprehension.
Subject Area
Multicultural Education|Mental health|Sociology|Social work
Recommended Citation
Smith, Oscar Stephen, "A Study of Twenty Cases of Male Adolescent Delinquents Referred by the Manhattan Children’s Court to Catholic Charities Guidance Institute Which Did Not Materialize Into Treatment Situations" (1956). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31050535.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31050535
