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An Experiment in the Prevention of Delinquency: The Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study

by Gordon W. Allport, Edwin Powers, Helen Witmer. 656 pgs.

Contributors:

   Gordon W. Allport, Edwin Powers, Helen Witmer

Publisher:

   Columbia University Press

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1951

Subjects:

Juvenile Delinquency

	CONTENTS
	Foreword, by Dr. Gordon W. Allport	v
	Acknowledgments	xxxi
	PART I: THE STUDY By Edwin Powers
I.	An Idea Becomes a Reality	3
II.	The Social Setting	9
III.	The Search for Tomorrow's Delinquents	29
IV.	The Initial Study of the Boys and Their Families	37
V.	Who Shall Be Chosen?	51
VI.	The Two Matched Groups: Treatment and Control	61
VII.	Assignment of Boys to Counselors	83
VIII.	Nature of the Treatment Program	88
IX.	The Counselor Meets the Boy	102
X.	The First Few Years of the Program	111
XI.	The Program Evolves	128
XII.	The War Years	139
XIII.	The Boy Judges the Treatment	155
XIV.	Who Is a Juvenile Delinquent?	174
XV.	"Most Delinquent" Boys	187
XVI.	What Makes Them Delinquent?	229
XVII.	The School Meets the Delinquent Boy	257
XVIII.	Can Delinquency be Predicted?	273
XIX.	Evaluation during the Course of Treatment	293
XX.	Was Delinquent Behavior Prevented?	320
	PART II: EVALUATION By Helen L. Witmer
XXI.	Plan of Evaluation	341
XXII.	The Boys and Their Families	347
XXIII.	The Counselors and Their Services	376
XXIV.	Adjustment of the Treated and Control Boys	385
XXV.	Value of the Study to Individual Boys	421
XXVI.	How and with Whom Good Results Were Secured	456
XXVII.	The Boys Who Were Not Helped	484
XXVIII.	The Dubious Cases	519
XXIX.	Why the Counselors Were Not More Successful	546
XXX.	Recommendations for Future Programs	577
	Appendices
	A. Note on the Life and Services of Richard Clarke Cabot	585
	B. The Staff	591
C.	Record Forms and Questionnaires	595
D.	The Camping Program: Statistics	636
	E. Published Articles Based on the Study	638
	Index	639

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