Identifier: boyhoodlawlessne00true (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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1 HE Same Gang at Craps THE BOY AND THE COURT charges belong somewhere between these two extremes.Many of them are merely wild/ like scores of otherfellows on their streets, and would have a fair prospectof turning out well under proper supervision. It is safe to say that delinquent was a misnomerfor at least one-fifth of the 197 boys so easily dismissedfrom court. On a conservative estimate, 39 of theseboys could not be charged with real misdemeanor, stillless with crime. The sum of their iniquity was the viola-tion of a city ordinance; they had obstructed a side-walk of a public street while engaged in playing somegame ranging from football to craps. One boy, for instance, was arrested for pitchingpennies. His parents were sending him to high schooland had managed to give each of his older brothers twoyears in a business college—facts which betoken in ourdistrict unusual family energy and ambition. The boyhimself was the leading spirit of an especially vigoroussettlement club. His

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