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Title: Boyhood and lawlessness. The neglected girl
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: True, Ruth Smiley, 1886- Neglected girl
Subjects: Girls Boys Women Juvenile Delinquency
Publisher: (New York : Survey Associates)
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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ially great to the staff of the Clin-ton District office of the Charity Organization Society,who brought us in touch with many families in theircare, and through their varied experience helped us ininterpreting many aspects of neighborhood life. Among * Mention should also be made of other fellows of the Bureauwhose work in connection with the West Side Survey is not includedin these publications. They were Elizabeth B. Butler, senior fellow;Lawrence K. Frank, Robert C. Sanger, Garret P. Wyckoff, HowardNudd, Marie S. Orenstein, and Frances Perkins, all junior fellows.The last three published the results of their investigations in maga-zine articles. vii PREFACE TO WEST SIDE STUDIES Other agencies, Hartley House was particularly gener-ous in making us acquainted with its Italian neighborsand in giving us the opportunity to visit them in theirhomes. The teachers of various local schools shouldalso be mentioned with appreciation for the help theygave us in many ways. Pauline Goldmark. vm
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P 6 in 6o >H O 01 H s in n J5 aj M rt E ■(-> o q >^ -c ^ RUSSELL SAGEFOUNDATION BOYHOODAND LAWLESSNESS WEST SIDE STUDIES NEW YORK SURVEY ASSOCIATES, INC MGMXIV Copyright, 1914, byThe Russell Sage Foundation THE TROW PBESSNEW YORK INTRODUCTION WHEN the Bureau of Social Research began, earlyin 1909, an investigation of the Middle WestSide, it was soon realized that of all the prob-lems presented by the district, none was more urgent andbaffling, none more fundamental, than that of the boyand his gang. His anti-social activities have forced himupon public attention as an obstruction to law andbusiness and a menace to order and safety. Becauseof this lawlessness and because of New Yorks back-wardness in formulating wise preventive measures tomeet it, a special study of the West Side boy was begun.In order to gain an intimate knowledge of neighbor-hood conditions which affect the boy, two men workers,Edward M. Barrows and Clinton S. Childs, went tolive in the district, the forme

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