Treatment of Juvenile Delinquents

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Excerpt from Treatment of Juvenile Delinquents: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate Divinity, School in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of PhilosophyThe early sculptor carved a child, and he carved a man in mini ature, with muscular limbs and body and small head. The beauty of the child physique ¿ed before this caricature. The legal sculp tor has attempted to chisel a child who has broken the laws of the group, and his model has been an adult criminal. And the moral beauty of childhood has often taken a like course. To lose in the statue the plumpness and the irresistible grace of childhood jars our aesthetic sense, but the incomparably greater loss of really injuring child life condemns us. Where we should have used a magnifying glass on the child we have used a minifying glass on the man and judged the result to be the same. Today we are te defining both crime and juvenile delinquency in the attempt to remedy the error, and doing it to the advantage of both classes.Every member of a community is considered delinquent or faultless, his action licit or illicit according to his attitude towards the accredited opinion of the group, usually expressed in its written law, The aim of the group is to bring all into conformity with its standard. Success depends upon many conditions, among them educational advantages and the use made of them, eco nomic conditions in the group, immediacy of need, number of providers, etc., the corrective apparatus through which conformity is enforced where necessary, religious beliefs and practices, the constitution and character of the family, the size of the group and its relations with other groups.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.