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The New Criminology
Seagle, William | August 27, 1930 issue

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The article discusses the book "500 Criminal Careers," by Sheldon Glueck and Eleanor T. Glueck. According to the author, chances are that this study by Gluecks will become a classic of the new criminology. It is the most painstaking and thorough investigation of the grist of a great penological institution that has ever been made. The hard, unshakable fact, which the investigation establishes, is that 80 per cent of the 510 men who were discharged from the Massachusetts Reformatory from 1911 to 1922 were not reformed from five to fifteen years later but were continuing in their careers of crime. The exact contrary used to be asserted, to wit, that 80 per cent of those graduated from reformatories proved successes.

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500 Criminal Careers (Book); GLUECK, Sheldon; GLUECK, Eleanor T.; CRIMINOLOGY; REFORMATORIES; CORRECTIONS; CRIME; WIT & humor
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