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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

Author

Harlow Alfred Hanlon, University of the Pacific

Date of Award

1944

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (M.A.)

Department

Education

First Advisor

Not Listed

Abstract

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 century there were almshouses in all of the larger cities in the United States, and in any instances, there were alms- houses established by counties and townships

Pages

146

Recommended Citation

Hanlon, Harlow Alfred. (1944). 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. University of the Pacific, Thesis. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/1029