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Table XL Eelatives of Mental Defectives who have been in 
Juvenile Court 
Slack Group 
Burk, Glen petit larceny 
Grant, David truancy 
Grant, Gladys throwing rocks 
Hazen, Glen incorrigible 
Slack, George petit larceny 
McHaley- Johnson Group 
Freeman, Alta no hottie care 
McHaley, John petit larceny 
McHaley, Louis petit larceny 
Other Relatives 
Baker, Mabel. truancy 
Briggs, Elmer petit larceny 
Burden, Lester stealing 
Galloway, Helen rock throwing 
Galloway, James. . 
Jones, Homer no home 
Jones, Walter .no home 
Lowman, Jules larceny 
O’Brian, Elmer larceny 
Pai-ks, James larceny 
SkirVin, Herschel truancy 
Toban, Kenneth truancy 
Toban, Robert truancy 
The majority of the juvenile court cases are probably due 
to bad home conditions as much as to any other cause. They 
are the crimes or misdemeanors which are likely to be com- 
mitted by any child unless properly restrained by his parents. 
There seems to be no person on the list where there is a de- 
cided tendency toward criminality excepting in the cases of 
Glen Burk and Jules Lowman, who have a long criminal his- 
tory in spite of their youth. Each of these boys comes from a 
family where there has been a criminal environment. Each 
has close relatives who have served sentences, and from ear- 
liest childhood there has been a constant encouragement to 
leave the straight and narrow path. This has been especially 
true in the case of Glen Burk, whose full history is given in 
connection with the Slack family. In the other case, the im- 
mediate family is much better than that of Glen, but there 
is a long history of mental defect, alcoholism, prostitution, 
and crime on both sides of the other family. There has been 
an unusual amount of petty thievery thruout the family. 
It would seem, in view of the facts shown by these records. 
that mental defectives are not so likely to get into trouble as 
are individuals who do not fall in this class. While the de- 
fectives and their relatives have cost a considerable amount of 
money and time because of petty offenses, they have not, in 
comparison with persons not in this class, cost their share. 
For, as mentioned before, those who have been arrested 
the largest number of times are for the most part laborers 
who because of an uncontrolled appetite for liquor are fre- 
quently taken up for intoxication, peace disturbance, vagran- 
