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Real hope for the solution of the country's juvenile delinquency problem lies in a scientific attack on all phases of child conflict and maladjustment. This was one of the conclusions reached in a conference on exploring psychiatric research in juvenile delinquency sponsored by the Welfare and Health Council of New York City, on March 4-5 at Princeton, N. J. Participating were 25 psychiatric and other professional leaders.
The conference agreed that research can be most productive if it operates within the following principles:
that major focus be placed on young children;
that studies of the adolescent period go forward simultaneously;
that studies which would develop information on growth and maturation be undertaken;
that attention be given to the problems of identification and early education of delinquency characteristics and danger points;
that precise research methods and yardsticks be developed.
Five main areas of research were charted: