West Side Studies: Boyhood and Lawlessness The Neglected Girl

West Side Studies: Boyhood and Lawlessness; The Neglected Girl

When the Bureau of Social Research began, early in 1909, an investigation of the Middle West Side, it was soon realized that of all the problems presented by the district, none was more urgent and baffling, none more fundamental, than that of the boy and his gang. His anti-social activities have forced him upon public attention as an obstruction to law and business and a menace to order and safety. Because of this lawlessness and because of New Yorks backwardness in formulating wise preventive measures to meet it, a special study of the West Side boy was begun. In order to gain an intimate knowledge of neighborhood conditions which affect the boy, two men workers, Edward M. Barrows and Clinton S. Childs, went to live in the district, the former remaining for nearly two years. During their residence they came in close touch with several gangs and clubs of boys. Their experiences, while they yielded some of the most vital and significant material of our study, did not lend themselves to statistical treatment; they were not recorded in the form of family and individual histories, but as a running day-by-day diary, which formed the basis of the chapters dealing with the activities and the environment of the boys. Since the West Side boy, either through personal contact or through association with gang leaders, is inseparable from the Childrens Court, attention was xii naturally drawn to the extent and the result of his relation to this institution. For this reason the Bureau made a special study of 294 boys2 selected from the district with particular reference to their delinquency and their court records.3 ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 60116
Author: True, Ruth S. (Ruth Smiley)
Release Date: Aug 17, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English