Recidivism: A Study of One Hundred Cases of Delinquent Children Committed to Lincoln Hall, Lincolndale, New York, 1952–1956
Abstract
” Crime in the United States costs the citizens more than 15 billion dollars a year — a very expensive luxury in any culture." A large portion of this cost can be attributed to teen-age boys and girls. In 1954 the United States Senate Subcommittee Investigating Juvenile Delinquency reported that youngsters ten to seventeen years of age were being apprehended by the police at the rate of 2700 daily. The growing concern of the general public over the mounting rate of juvenile delinquency is reflected in the establishment of this Senate Subcommittee to determine the causes and contributing factors of delinquency as well as the adequacy of the existing programs in its’ treatment. This concern on the National and Local level had its effects upon the training schools. For some it meant a radical change in the method and approach of treatment while others re-evaluated in parts some of their program.
Subject Area
Law enforcement|Social studies education|Criminology
Recommended Citation
Wagner, Robert, "Recidivism: A Study of One Hundred Cases of Delinquent Children Committed to Lincoln Hall, Lincolndale, New York, 1952–1956" (1960). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31097032.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31097032
