The young malefactor : a study in juvenile delinquency, its causes and treatment / by Thomas Travis ; with an introduction by Ben B. Lindsey.

  • Travis, Thomas.
Date:
1908
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Credit: The young malefactor : a study in juvenile delinquency, its causes and treatment / by Thomas Travis ; with an introduction by Ben B. Lindsey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    is bad environment, and the proof of this is that whenever the environment has been thoroughly changed the child has recovered. With no medical aid and with no means except the in- fluence of a strong personality exerted in such a way that the effective environment of the delin- quent was altered, Judge Lindsey of Denver has cured 96% of all those handled in his court, and there are many who are worse than first court offenders there. To understand the nature of juvenile offences it is absolutely necessary to get at them not from the technical names given in court, or by a hearsay verdict of somebody who saw the mere deed, but we must see the whole act from the culprit's standpoint. Such a study reveals some bizarre crime that is surely the result of morbid nerves, much more which is the result of hered- ity and training, but most of all from mere im- maturity and accident. For example, a negro boy in one of our juvenile classes would expose himself in the presence of the children and teacher. He would begin masturbation and attempt homosexuality in the presence of the