Eleanor Touroff Glueck, who lived from 1898 to 1972, was an American social worker and criminologist who, together with her husband Sheldon Glueck, conducted pioneering longitudinal research into juvenile delinquency. Together they developed the Social Prediction Tables, a method for estimating a young person's likelihood of future delinquent behavior from early risk factors, and carried out some of the earliest sustained studies of chronic juvenile offenders and the role of psychopathy among serious delinquents.
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Defining ContributionPioneered research criminology on the causes of juvenile delinquency with husband Sheldon Glueck, producing numerous volumes on criminals and juvenile delinquents 1 Notable WorkThe Community Use of Schools (1927) 1 FAQs
What were the Social Prediction Tables that Eleanor Glueck and Sheldon Glueck produced?
The Gluecks' controversial tables claimed that potential delinquents could be identified by the age of six.
The Social Prediction Tables were a tool that the Gluecks presented in their 1950 book Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which concluded that the quality of a child's home life determined whether the child would become a juvenile delinquent. With the tables, the Gluecks claimed that potential delinquents could be identified by the age of six. The tables were controversial, and their later monographs include Predicting Delinquency and Crime (1959) and Identification of Predelinquents (1972).
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Source Wikipedia: Sheldon Glueck
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1. Glueck, Eleanor Touroff (1898-1972) - Encyclopedia.com
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Born Eleanor Touroff in Brooklyn, New York, on April 12, 1898
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Together, Eleanor Glueck and her husband Sheldon distinguished themselves in the field of research criminology, producing numerous volumes dealing with the problems of criminals and juvenile delinquents.
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Her first book, The Community Use of Schools, was published in 1927
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died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 25, 1972
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American research criminologist.
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Wikidata Q3721234, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Wikipedia: Sheldon Glueck
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In 1940, they began a ten-year longitudinal study that was published as Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency (1950).
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