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Identification of Potential Delinquents Supportive Rationale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Sheldon Glueck
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With all reasonable caution, I believe it has been established that a feasible and safe method has been developed for identifying potentially delinquent children at the age of five or six, when they enter the first grade in school.

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II. — General Conferences Conférences Générales
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International Annals of Criminology , Volume 8 , Issue 2: Le Traitement des Delinquants , 1969 , pp. 233 - 246
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Copyright © 1969 International Society for Criminology

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References

(1) Craig (Maude M.) and Glick (Selma J.), «Ten Years' Experience with the Glueck Social Prediction Table », Crime and Delinquency, 9, 1963, 249; A Manual of Procedures for Application of the Glueck Prediction Table, New York, New York City Youth Board, 1964; « Application of the Glueck Social Prediction Table on an Ethnic Basis», Crime and Delinquency, 11 (April) 1965; Tait Jr., M.D. (C. D.) and Hodges Jr., M.D. (E. F.), Delinquents, Their Families, and the Community, Springfield, Ill., Thomas, 1962; Hodges and Tait, « A Follow-Up Study of Potential Delinquents », Amer. J. of Psych., 120, 1963, 449; Trevvett (Nina B.), «Identifying Delinquency-Prone Children», Crime and Delinquency, 11 (April), 1965.

(2) Glueck (Sheldon and Eleanor), Later Criminal Careers, New York, Commonwealth Fund, 1937; Criminal Careers in Retrospect, New York, Commonwealth Fund, 1943; Juvenile Delinquents Grown Up, New York, Commonwealth Fund, 1940; After Conduct of Discharged Offenders, London, Macmillan, 1943.

(3) See note 1 above; also, Glueck (Eleanor T.), «Toward Improving the Identification of Delinquents », and « Toward Further Improving the Identification of Delinquents », Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology and Police Science, 53, 1962, 178; and 54, 1963, 178; and in Glueck (S. and E.), Ventures in Criminology, London Tavistock, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1964.

(4) See Glueck (Eleanor T.), «Efforts to Identify Delinquents», Federal Probation, XXIV, 1960, 49; and in Ventures in Criminology.

(5) Letter to Professor Sheldon Glueck, March 29, 1960.