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Also Known As juvenile delinquency

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Hannah Kent Schoff
American social worker and reformer
Lindsey, Ben B.
Ben B. Lindsey
American jurist
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Eleanor Glueck
American criminologist
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Sheldon Glueck
American criminologist
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Sheldon Glueck and Eleanor Glueck
American criminologists
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Marvin Wolfgang
American criminologist
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Walter Reckless
American criminologist
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Gresham M. Sykes
American criminologist
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Franz Alexander
Hungarian physician and psychoanalyst
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Travis Hirschi
American criminologist
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William Sheldon
American psychologist
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Sir John Fielding
British police reformer