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are to be seen already in work with juvenile delinquents, 

 but even here science, so far, is having very httle chance for 

 trying different plans of treatment. The best of correctional 

 institutions receive a motley aggregation of individuals, 

 and in the main, treat them without regard to individual 

 diagnosis and etiology. These institutions are really hospitals 

 or colonies for the treatment of delinquency, the social 

 disease, but in their regime and after-care, which is as 

 important, and in some cases more so, than detention, 

 they are not awakened to the advantages of a scientific 

 methodology. Anyone acquainted with the ordinary manage- 

 ment of our public affairs knows plenty of reasons for this, 

 but with a better understanding of the possibilities and a 

 more educated public sentiment the situation certainly 

 should be alterable. 



In present day endeavors to get better understandings, 

 there are healthy signs of much cooperation between 

 sociologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, with here and there 

 other medical men, anthropologists and educators taking some 

 part. Already nothing stands out any clearer than that the 

 more effective handling of the problems of antisocial conduct, 

 an end so utterly desirable, depends upon the extension of 

 scientific method in this field. Observing the demonstrable 

 high values of the case method study of juvenile delinquents, 

 the diagnoses made, the uncovering of the varied etiological 

 factors, the adequacy of well directed treatment based on 

 scientific fact, observing these things no one can doubt 

 the possibilities of checking very many anti-social careers. 

 The main effort should be in the direction of applying this 

 early therapy. While the bent twig, the older offender, 

 presents a harder problem we may be assured that coordinate 

 methods more scientifically constructed, could vastly better 

 protect society from delinquency and crime. 



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Brasol, B. 1927. Elements of Crime. Oxford Univ. Press. 



Burt, C. 1925. The Young Delinquent. Univ. of London Press. 



CooLEY, E. J. 1927. Probation and Delinquency. Catholic Charities of N. Y. 



Garafalo, R. 1914. Criminology. Boston, Little, Brown. 



Healy, W. 1915. The Individual Delinquent. Boston, Little, Brown. 



