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D. Social Considerations 



9. Maladjustment — Length of Residence in Gary and 



Residence Previous to Coming to Gary 20 



Gary was incorporated in 1906 and became a city in 1909, 

 so that length of residence in Gary of any of its population is 

 necessarily limited. 



An examination of the length of residence in Gary of the 

 juvenile delinquents in this study shows that the greatest number 

 of these delinquents hive come very recently to Gary, especially 

 among the Xew Immigration. Information is not available as 

 to length of residence in the United States for either the Old or 

 Xew Immigration. 



Information is given, however, as to place of residence just 

 previous to coming to Gary. In the Xew Immigration where 

 information is given, in onlv three families did the parents come 

 directly from the old country: two Polish families from Austria, 

 one eight years and one a year and a half before; and one Slavish 

 family from Austria two years before. Among those having lived 

 elsewhere in the United States before coming to Gary, seven 

 states are represented. Many of the families came from nearby 

 industrial communities and cities, a large proportion from 

 Chicago. The rest came principally from industrial communities 

 in the eastern industrial states. 



That is, the only kind of community to which most of the 

 Xew Immigration families have been accustomed in America 

 is the industrial community, in striking contrast to the experience 

 of many of these families in the old country. While many of 

 these families show a breadth of experience in having moved 

 from one industrial community to another since coming to 

 America, this very experience may be immeasurably expensive 

 in its effect on child life because of confused standards of morality, 

 of social customs, legal restrictions, etc. 



10. Associations in Delinouency — Groups and Gangs and 



Bad Associates 21 



Many juvenile offenses are the result of association of delin- 

 quents in groups and gangs. 



An examination of the cases of juvenile delinquents in Gary 

 in this study arranged according to offenses committed by groups 



20 Original tables, pp. 26-29. See Preface to this study. 

 21 Original tables, pp. 29-31. See Preface to this study. 



