Juvenile Delinquency in Modern Society

Juvenile Delinquency and Degeneration in the Upper Classes of Society

The increased attention bestowed within the last fifteen years upon the nature and causes of insanity, has resulted in other benefits than an improved treatment of the insane. It has converted the crude, empirical notions which previously existed, and enveloped that disease in mystery, into a science, shedding-light upon the path of the inquirer, and revealing truths which had been long conceal...

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Juvenile Delinquency

potentiality the mature pattern of social behaviour depends upon the pattern of behaviour established in early family relationships. Normal behaviour presupposes that the child in the home should have met firstly with stable and secure affection. This is a biological need without which he cannot develop normally. In its absence, relative or, rarely, complete, he will be liable to a wide variety...

Juvenile Delinquency

A chapter on the mental growth of the child, precedes an attempt to correlate aetiological factors with the stages of child development and so to reveal the psychological basis determining the origins of susceptibility to delinquency. Here the general views of Aichhorn. Healy and Bronner, Kate Friedlander, Bowlby, Stott, Glucks and Bovet are briefly represented and examined. Most of the book co...

Juvenile Delinquency

p0rnrnenting on the Presidential Address at the B.M.A. meeting last summer: "Mr. lJaSer emphasised the need, above all, to face some of the problems of today, increasing *sure, alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and road accidents, and he thought that the ate and public bodies should take a more practical part in their solution. His implied Ceptance of the need for partnership between the State ...