An Analytical Study of the Intelligence of a Group of Adolescent Delinquent Girls *Adapted from a report presented to the Hon. Charles L. Brown, Judge of the Municipal Court of Philadelphia.

With the development and socialization of Misdemeanants Courts, the problem of girl delinquency has been a major consideration. Much has been done in the development of case work technique, of educating'the public to realize its share of responsibility before it condemns and of bringing all the knowledge of specialists to focus upon the individual problem before judgment is made. In place of the arrest and speedy conviction in the Magistrate's Court of a few years ago, each case now has the benefit of all the efficient treatment that the modern court can give her; the burden of effort being one of adjustment rather than punishment. What-