Can delinquency be measured? / by Sophia Moses Robison.

  • Robison, Sophia Moses, 1888-1969.
Date:
1936
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Can delinquency be measured? / by Sophia Moses Robison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dr. Caroline F. Ware, and the Director of the Research Bureau, Dr. Neva R. Deardorff. In addition to the five regular meetings of this committee, various members have been generous with advice and assistance when consulted on particular aspects of the study. Besides the members of the advisory committee, the members of the Department of Sociology at Columbia University, and the members of the Welfare Council’s standing Research Committee, Dr. Burton H. Camp, Dr. Henry B. Elkind, Professor Robert E. Ferrari, Dr. Eleanor Turoff Glueck, Dr. Sheldon Glueck, Dr. Harold Hotelling, Mr. Leonard W. Mayo, Dr. Curt Rosenow, Dr. Frank A. Ross, Professor Edwin H. Sutherland, and Dr. Herbert Williams have read the manuscript or portions of it and have been of considerable assistance in suggesting rear- rangements or reorganization of some of the material. Dr. Maurice J. Karpf, Professor Willford I. King, Dr. Philip Klein, and Dr. Arthur L. Swift, Jr., of the Council’s stand- ing Research Committee, have been especially helpful in their criticisms, advice, and suggestions. Dr. Abraham Hackman of the Welfare Council’s emergency staff was of unusual help in connection with some of the statistical aspects of the study. To Dr. Neva R. Deardorff, Director of the Research Bureau, the writer owes a debt only to be repaid by a performance adequate in terms of standards set by an exacting but kind taskmaster. At the intervals when drafts, towards which the author was naively ambivalent, were presented for her criticism, Dr. Deardorff checked the tendency to get lost in the pursuit of interesting detail with the question, “What of it?” To her insistence on always keeping the main question in mind is largely due any consistent direction which the study as a whole may possess. Without the willing codperation and assistance of the