Mental aspects of delinquency / by Truman Lee Kelley.

  • Truman Lee Kelley
Date:
[1917]
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Credit: Mental aspects of delinquency / by Truman Lee Kelley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER I. THE PROBLEM There is a growing realization that the social agencies repre- sented by the policeman, the judge of the criminal court, and the reformatory have not satisfactorily handled the problem of juvenile delinquency. The apprehension, trial, and punish- ment of the individual has seldom been effective in making him a useful and law-abiding citizen, or in protecting society from his future depredations. There are too many ‘‘backsliders,’’ if such | reformed. ‘‘Gatesville Graduate’? may some day come to mean a boy of Texas whose past history is forgotten because of his present manly and sterling qualities; but the term is not so used at present. Much has already been accomplished in the erea- juvenile courts, state training schools—not penal institutions, appropriate placing of delinquent boys and girls. But the im- proved procedure, at best, is only in its infancy, The problem of the delinquent youth has not been solved. His appropriate question in the minds of the wisest educators. His apprehen- sion and probation puzzle the most humane and enlightened judge. He is completely a problem to his family, to his teacher and generally to himself, | Whether the problem be approached from the point of view the vocational adviser, the more accurate and vomplete the understanding of the physical being, social outlook, and the intellectual capacities of the delinquent youth, the more just and efficient will be his handling. Such understanding is desirable in any case, but there are certain phases peculiar to the different points of view. From the standpoint of the large social unit, the State, the question of self-protection is of major importance. Hence the State is especially concerned with subjecting the apprehended miscreant to an educative process which will result in his coming forth a
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