biography
| name: |
Glueck, Eleanor Touroff
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pronunciation:
[gluk]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1898–1972)
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| biography:
| Social worker and juvenile delinquency reformer, born in New York City, USA. A champion of youthful offenders, she worked as a research assistant in criminology for Harvard Law School (1953–64). She was co-director of a long term study on the causes, treatment, and prevention of juvenile delinquency (1929–64), served on the delinquency committee at a White House Conference on Children and Youth (1960), and wrote many articles in conjunction with her husband, Sheldon Glueck. |
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