New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-03
Cnmnahy
of the
rs 40 Per Cent of Whom Have Been
Lies in Kept by Instructors for
Future of Habits Manners Impulses Attitudes
and Of eJuvenleB Under Their Charge

the study OF heredity have been impor-
tant
AT this point, then, the psychological
thing is to the front In its beginning 1t
had more to do with the analysis OF the
finished criminal product, and because Oh
that has rested very largely in the isola-
ton of certain mental diseased groups
among the criminals. 1t has answered.
OF course, a lot of questions about con-
siderable group of criminals, but 1t never
answered in q complete way any ques-
ton Of origins Of criminality in terms OF
mind.
"A tendency began to appear ten or M
teen years ago in chronological circles OF
paying a good deal more attention to the
juvenile delinquent.
AT first this was quite emotional. IL
began, however, to group a lot of material
that afforded the men working with 1t
some mighty enlivening ideas. 1t WASH
very long before the psychological apph-
cations were made to this group, ana
because it was Juvenile group they just
accidentally began TO make their applica-
tions to it.
"They began to discover that the an
swer to the finished criminal could be
read out of the early criminal with de-
gree of completeness they hadn't mag
ined. In other words, they got closer 10
the fundamental precept that crime ana
mental pathology were simply t"o
branches of a common stock
Necessarily this made them concen-
trate their efforts on these inside studies.
For long time these inside studies were
directed very largely toward the defini-
ton of the criminal disposition as seen
in the juvenile. A tremendous amount
was credited to innate qualiues-hereui-
tarv questions They had To credit IL u
something!
.In the next place, this work was hrsI
characterized simply by carrying the hheS
of the various mentally diseased groups
of the adult back into the juvenile. In
other words, at first their answers 10
this story were a good deal the same aS
those which came from the adult crlmihal
study, save that they were more eA-
tensive and finished
THE misunderstood JUVENILE.
"Tbey had not yet begun TO study the
Juvenile as a developing proposltioh'
! They were simply seeing him with aaul'
eves and as a lesser mould Of the greater
adult mould They, however, have given
us certain well defined patholosiooi
groups that stand at the present.
A change in these studies, DR.. Parker
added, began along two lines: The studles
of heredity enabled greater eHacthesS
IN he applied toward the question OF crlHi-
inal disposition. 1t began to he apparent
that in a very large group or cases the
term criminal disposition" was simply an
easy chair. i'm which one could SIT down
and rock ones self to sleep.
On the other hand. it began TO isolate
certain definite groups where the hereol'g
was bad i'm a high percentage OF cases.
answerable TO a certain extent Tor the
further development of the criminal ten
denotes. II made II clear, DR.. Parker
pointed out, that il was not the crlnlinal
tendency which was inherited, but pad
mental equipment.
! Along the psychological line the changes
came about through early studies OF the
normal child-that branch of psychology
that we call genetic psychology. The
| however. made very largely by the medl-
cal man, not the psychologist.
1T is from this early child-psychology'
said DR.. Parker, that the great advances
are TO be made in the determination OF
the criminal development.
! .If we take any group Of thousand
| Juvenile delnquents, and we give them
q reasonably decent examination there
| & a percentage Of between 20 % and ~
which will be made up of certain classes
| NJ mentally diseased. This particular
oroun illustrates that work upon the
tuvenile dclinauents which has issued In
The Isolation of approximately four or
| five subdivisions.
.orbe percentage OF actually insane Is
smau although the progression into In
sanity, as years 30 on under correc'io",
largely increases. The feeple n'iiueu
| class do not form as large percentage
among the juvenile delinquents as Is popu-
Iarlv supposed. This Is, Of course tuhoa-
.o,,a,lv due to the fact that the feeble
,t,ded Is not anti-social. He Is largely
! ,Jo,,n of the anti-social mind USED by
otbers His offences, usually against prop
ortv are of a very silly type, not prenieui-
tated, easy of detection
AN INsIDIoUs DISEASE.
"The epileptic group are more DANGER
Gus. Here are to be fouhu oaSeS
where the usual criterion OF epiIepsy-the
attack-is missing The epilepsy SHOWS
itself I'm strange and rapid changes OF
mood. in great irritability, sudden resent
TnIness. acute aggressiveness, largely
mon nersons; assaults homicides faIl