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Also Known As juvenile delinquency

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Gresham M. Sykes
American criminologist
Hannah Kent Schoff
American social worker and reformer
Lindsey, Ben B.
Ben B. Lindsey
American jurist
Marvin Wolfgang
American criminologist
Walter Reckless
American criminologist
Franz Alexander
Hungarian physician and psychoanalyst
Travis Hirschi
American criminologist
William Sheldon
American psychologist
Sir John Fielding
British police reformer
Eleanor Glueck
American criminologist
Sheldon Glueck
American criminologist