A Follow-Up Study of Forty-Four Boys From Fairfield County Committed to Connecticut School for Boys
Abstract
The Background of the Study. The assessment of the follow-up study has much to recommend of itself to social work. To a profession so characteristically involved with the complexity of human problems in terms of individualisation and immediacy, the panoramic view and the comprehensive summing up offer a fresh critical basis for the evaluation of agency concept, program, and method. It suggests avenues of effective direction and challenges resources to further effort.It was, perhaps, the very temporal distinction between the delinquent and the criminal, despite obvious common features, which suggested an early application of the follow-up study to these categories. Of course, rare opportunity, too, was presented for extended study by the recurrent treatment under controlled conditions. Perhaps, also, the general conception of common motivation and expression led some to seek in the panoramic view an essential feature.
Subject Area
Educational administration|Social work
Recommended Citation
Houk, Alfred James, "A Follow-Up Study of Forty-Four Boys From Fairfield County Committed to Connecticut School for Boys" (1950). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31097007.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31097007
