Juvenile Delinquency
88 Citations•1922•
A. F. Tredgold
Nature
Dr Goddard's final words are, " juvenile delinquency can be largely eradicated", and it is quite clear that this cannot be the case with a very large proportion of the mentally defectivre and psychopathic, for whom the only solution is permanent care in an institution.
Abstract
No student of modern life can fail to be perturbed by the number of juveniles who come before the courts yearly for offences covering a very wide range. That our present system does not deal with them adequately is obvious.Juvenile Delinquency.By Henry Herbert Goddard. Pp. vi + 120. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., n.d.) 3s. 6d. net.