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Non-Delinquency Among American-Chinese Youth : A Pilot Study, Conrad Foo Mar

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It was the purpose of this study: (1) to examine the obstacles in research in the uniquely difficult area of sampling of the American-Chinese population and (2) to find out what descriptive approaches do not produce resistance, hopefully to suggest future research in this area and (3) to obtain historical and descriptive data which might offer, from a sample of both delinquent and non-delinquent American-Chinese youth, some clues to the rehabilitation of youthful offenders. Specifically, this was basically an attempt to obtain an available sample of both delinquent and non-delinquent American-Chinese youth for the purpose of identifying some of the …

The Influence Of Group Work On The Predelinquent Boy, Mona Claire Vaughn

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

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Some Significant Home And Community Factors Which Influence Juvenile Delinquency : With Particular Reference To Delinquency Problems Of The City Of Sacramento And The Sacramento City Schools, Harlow Alfred Hanlon

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

For many years, an adult Historical Background society has been involved in treating Juvenile delinquency problems. This fact is reflected in the Poor Laws of Elizabethan England, in the Indenture and Settlement Laws which date back to 1601, and the hit-or-miss idealism of private charities.

In the United States, we find it in the transplanting of the Indenture and Settlement Laws and the Almshouse In the Early English Colonies on the main land of North America. Toward the close of the seventeenth century, the first almshouse was established in Boston and others follower until by the beginning of the nineteenth …