Report On Condition Of Woman And Child Wage Earners In The United States In 19 Volumes Volume Viii Juvenile Delinquency And Its Relation To Employment

Author : Charles P. Neill
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333121990
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Report on Condition of Woman and Child Wage-Earners in the United States, Vol. 8 of 19 written by Charles P. Neill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report on Condition of Woman and Child Wage-Earners in the United States, Vol. 8 of 19: Juvenile Delinquency and Its Relation to Employment The investigation made for the court, however, rarely covers all the points on which information is needed for such a study as this; so arrangements were made to supplement it by personal interviews, and by the knowledge, recorded or unrecorded, which the probation officers had gathered in the course of their work. Their familiarity with the character and surroundings of the children committed to their care has been of the greatest possible value in this investigation, which indeed could hardly have been satisfactorily carried through without their assistance and Cooperation. Anyone familiar with court proceedings knows that among juve niles, as among their elders, the court records are apt to Show waves of certain offenses, and that these waves have little connection with the amount of a given kind of delinquency occurring at a partic ular time. A gang of boys, for instance, may be in the habit of playing around the railroad yards, the nearest open place accessible to them. Technically this is trespassing on railroad property, but the boys are doing no harm, and good-natured employees or watch men look the other way. But some day a boy playing there throws a stone through the window of a moving passenger train or changes a signal light or throws a switch to see what will happen. That particular offender may escape, but the edict goes forth that boys are to be kept off, and there is a sudden and purely temporary increase in the number of delinquents brought in for trespass on the railway. Or again, a gang of fifteen or twenty boys may have been carrying on a series of petty breaks for some time, when one of their num ber falls into the hands of the police. Through this one the other members of the gang may be brought in, and the number of cases of larceny or burglary for that month may run up far beyond the normal figure. For the sake of obviating an undue weight or in u ence of these uctuations, it was felt that a sufficiently long period must be studied to obtain the average level of offenses. In the course of a year these variations might be expected to offset one another, so a year was taken as the period to be covered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."