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- Title
SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF YOUNG, OCCASIONAL, URBAN MALE OFFENDER IN THE 1930's.
- Authors
Young, Pauline V.
- Abstract
The article represents a very brief summary of the procedure involved in the preliminary statistical study conducted by the author on the young occasional male offender for the last four years as of August 1940. The article gives an account of the interviewing techniques, and the recording of data involved in the study. In order to determine the type and number of factors which predominated among occasional urban male offenders, or in other words, to learn who the occasional urban male offender group were, a statistical study was made of 2000 consecutive case records of all offenders who had applied for probation and whose cases were heard in Los Angeles County Superior Courts, California in 1933, including cases which were granted probation as well as those which were denied and committed to the state penitentiaries. Some of the statistical findings were somewhat unexpected. For example, the large percentage of offenders (57 percent) questioned were found to be under 30 years of age; also nearly 60 percent of the offenders had been reared at home by both parents.
- Subjects
UNITED States; OCCASIONAL criminals; YOUTH &; violence; CRIMINAL law; CRIMINALS; CRIMINAL behavior
- Publication
American Sociological Review, 1940, Vol 5, Issue 4, p596
- ISSN
0003-1224
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2084434