Many are those who have concerned themselves with the problem of juvenile delinquency — men of letters and writers, doctors, investigators, and researchers — and among them also Dr. Sheldon Glueck and his wife, who analyzed and accompanied the delinquent as child, youth, and man.
Glueck laments that class of boys which the country loses from year to year: the class that fights, smashes, attacks, and stirs up many troubles leading to the loss of a great number of lives, besides the material losses that perplex the government and under whose burden the people groan.
How strange that in a single family we find two brothers who part ways in their habits, in their manner of living, in their outlook on life, and in their very psychology! These two boys, whom Glueck and his wife followed: one was a bloodthirsty criminal and the other a just judge who many a time brought his criminal brother before the court to be tried for his crimes.
And if we go back to look at the roots of that family, we find that the environment was corrupt and the family's past filthy. This is what led Dr. Glueck to go himself to the police department and the streets of New York and bring in five hundred delinquents, and to the schools and cultural, educational places, whence he brought a like number. And from here began the comparative study between the one group and the other.
Glueck began his operation by taking one individual from the first group against one individual from the second; and after weighing
each member of the first group against a member of the second, and testing their intelligence, their alertness, their past, and their manner of living, he brought us these important points from those results, which educational specialists, doctors, lawyers, and men of religion had determined:
1 — Two hundred and fifty delinquents out of the five hundred have working within them a love of leadership and domination, and those factors lead them to crime by way of their bad company.
2 — The majority of this number hate intelligent boys, despise them, and want no closeness with them.
3 — The delinquent enjoys good health, tremendous strength, and a bold outlook on life.
4 — The delinquent is unable to think, and is often devoid of
human feeling.
5 — He knows no pity and does not understand the meaning of love.
6 — Delinquents spend most of their time in gambling houses, in vulgar places, and in cheap markets.
7 — Delinquency begins with drinking liquor at an early age; his company then grows cheap, and he goes ever further into delinquency.
8 — In every hundred souls of America's population we see one delinquent keeping the police busy.
9 — Two hundred and eighty thousand delinquents are brought before the courts every year.
10 — The delinquent imposes his will by force, without any thought for the consequences
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