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In five pages this paper examines Sheldon Glueck’s contributions to criminology and evaluates the validity of his theory on juvenile delinquency, which states that body type and a set of five criteria can be used to predict delinquent behavior in juveniles and also how this can be used to determine adequate probation for youthful offenders. The writer includes an observation from personal experience to assess whether or not Glueck’s theory is true or false. Three sources are listed in the bibliography.
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was a child. He received LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from the National University Law School and later a Masters and Ph.D. in social ethics from Harvard University (Rubenser 183).
His brother, Sing Sing Prison forensic psychiatrist Bernard Glueck, introduced him to Eleanor Touroff, whom he married in 1922. He and his wife would become personal and professional
partners, deeply involved in criminology research to determine the causes of criminal behavior and to develop possible solutions. The Gluecks devised prediction tables that they believed could successfully determine
criminal outcomes and effective probations based upon scores and percentages. Glueck theorized that five factors including the birthplace of the juveniles father, maternal and paternal discipline, school retardation, and
misconduct could create a highly accurate prediction table (85). Dr. Glueck argued that judges could use his prediction tables to develop a time estimate as to when a juveniles
criminal behavior would cease (Rubenser 184). This, Glueck contended, would enable the judge to predict accurately when to place the offender on probation with a greater degree of success
(86). Dr. Glueck spent much of his career teaching social ethics and law at Harvard and in 1950 was named the first Roscoe
Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first published in 1950, Glueck and his wife matched 500 juvenile delinquents with 500 nondelinquents to for
the purpose of comparative analysis (Rubenser 183). This 15-year study of a group of inmates in order to determine why criminal behavior in some was perpetuated while others ceased
crime activity after incarceration (Rubenser 183). The findings were published in 1968 as Delinquents and Nondelinquents in Perspective (Rubenser 183). At the time, it appeared Glueck had developed
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