Abstract
This study began with 179 elementary school children in 1954 and followed 151 of them to the end of the juvenile jurisdiction period. It succeeded for about three out of four cases in predict ing which boys would become known to juvenile court on a delinquency complaint by age seventeen.. These results were sur prisingly similar to those of the original retrospective study by the Gluecks, who devised the main prediction instrument. Pre dictions on a small sample of nondelinquents were not as ac curate as those reported by the Gluecks, but no generalizations are offered because of the sample's smallness.
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