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considerations, age, sex, civil conditions, illiteracy, height and 

 weight; under cosmic considerations, seasonal crime; and under 

 social considerations, birthplace, association in crime, geograph- 

 ical distribution, and industrial status. In Sections II, III, and 

 IV the material is so limited that no arrangement is attempted. 



In the study of juvenile delinquency certain considerations 

 are worked out on the basis of case and some of family. 38 Case 

 is here used to refer to the individual delinquent no matter how 

 many times he has appeared in court or how many affidavits are 

 fihd against him for separate offenses. He remains still one 

 case. In individual considerations, Such as age for example, the 

 case is the logical unit, while in certain social considerations, as 

 home conditions for example, the family is the logical unit. In 

 the study of adult crim?, however, where the act committed still 

 remains the focus of attention of society, each crime committed 

 is taken as the basis of a case. 



Because of the unique character of the city of Gary and its 

 population, because of the short period of time covered by the 

 study, and the comparatively small number of cases, much of 

 the information in this study must stand simply as materials. 



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