Predicting Juvenile Delinquency

Bibliographic Data

ID5250723
AuthorsH Ashley Weeks (corresponding author)
Year1943
Volume8
Issue1
Pages40
Publication date1943-02-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2085447
OpenAlexW2316193013
LanguageEN
Citations received9

T HIS IS A report of an attempt to predict juvenile delinquency. It examines the feasibility of setting up prognostic tables to indicate the probabilities of juveniles' becoming delinquent when certain social factors are present in their backgrounds; and suggests uses to which such tables might be put. If it is possible to construct tables which indicate the probabilities of success or failure on parole, or of success or failure in marriage, there seems to be no logical reason why the same procedure cannot be used to indicate the probabilities of delinquency. As the term is used in this study, a delinquent is any male between the ages of seven and eighteen years who has appeared before a juvenile court. A non-delinquent, on the other hand, is any male who has not appeared before a juvenile court.' Source of Data. This study, except for the retest by the second sample, is based on information concerning the 420 males who appeared before the Spokane County Juvenile Court during 1937, and on a comparable group of male non-delinquents picked at random from the public secondary schools of the city of Spokane

Biology · Criminology · Juvenile · Juvenile delinquency · Ecology · Education Discipline and Inequality · Environmental Science · Psychology · Youth Development and Social Support · Youth Substance Use and School Attendance

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