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This work is an extension—and in many ways an amplification regarding bases—of the behavior study published some years ago of juvenile delinquents as observed during the five-year period following correctional or therapeutic measures provided for whatever offense had brought them before the juvenile court. In the work at hand the material includes developments presented during the additional ten years in which the majority of subjects reached chronologic maturity.
The scope of the work is indicated in the essential ground-work described in the first chapters: Characteristics of the Delinquents; Delinquency Prior to Appearance in Boston Juvenile Court; Delinquency in the First, Second, and Third Follow-Up Periods; Trend of Conduct; Age, Maturation, and Changes in Conduct; Comparison of Reformed and Unre-formed, of Younger and Older Reformed, and of Serious and Minor, Offenders; Predicting Behavior During a Fifteen Year Span; and Behavior During Various Forms of Peno-Correctional Treatment.
Further chapters present consideration of the offenders in regard to