Treatment of Juvenile Delinquents
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Abstract
DELINQUENCY persists as one of our most disturbing social problems. In spite of the money and professional skill which have been applied to the matter we find ourselves to-day without any clear-cut prescription. We are not without light, however, for the research of the last forty years has left us with positive as well as negative findings, and the next generation stands in a good position to capitalise the efforts of pioneers in this field. Any discussion of new methods of treating delinquents, therefore, must be pursued with modesty and with due consideration for the legacy of insight and fact which are the ground work for progress. The discussion of treatment methods used by the Citizenship Training Department of the Boston Juvenile Court is to be considered primarily an attempt to consolidate the findings of several generations of research with an effort to carry the problem over from a preoccupation with diagnosis to a more direct attack on supervision and treatment.