A Study of Women Delinquents in New York StateCentury Company, 1920 - 542 pages |
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age at entering age at leaving age at starting Auburn Prison average weekly wage Bedford Auburn Magdalen Bedford group Blakeman's Criterion Capacity as Measured Cent 25 Cent Distribution centage Chances that real Chart committed Correlation ratios criminal delinquent group delinquent women Distribution of Delinquent domestic service earning English-speaking entering prostitution factors felons girl gonorrhea grade finished Groups INSTITUTIONAL GROUPS home conditions included indicate Institutional Groups INSTITUTIONAL leaving school mean number Means and Standard Measured by Test Mental Capacity Measured misdemeanants native colored native white Nativity and Color number of convictions number of previous occupations offenses against chastity offenses against property Peni population present conviction previous convictions Prison Probation group recidivists record relationship sex offenders sexually irregular shows smaller percentage standard deviation Stanford-Binet syphilis Table tendency Test Aggregate total foreign born total group total native born Vaudeville wage for prevailing Wassermann test Women in Institutional Workhouse York City
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Page 304 - In the social production which men carry on they enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will; these relations of production correspond to a definite stage of development of their material forces of production.
Page 304 - It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but, on the contrary, their social existence determines their consciousness.
Page 304 - In the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will, relations of production which correspond to a definite stage of development of their material productive forces.
Page 173 - ... persons who have been convicted of or admit having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude...
Page 167 - No satisfactory evidence has yet been produced to show that immigration has resulted in an increase in crime disproportionate to the increase in adult population. Such comparable statistics of crime and population as it has been possible to obtain indicate that the immigrants are less prone to commit crime than are native Americans.
Page 173 - States, or of all government, or of all forms of law, or the assassination of public officials; prostitutes, or women or girls coming into the United States for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose...
Page 528 - Whether or not they become delinquent will depend, not so much upon the appearance of a single decisive factor, as upon the massing of factors in such a way as to disturb a more or less unstable initial adjustment. That certain factors, notably poor economic conditions, variously operative, and inferior intelligence, are particularly likely so to disturb the balance is the main point which we should urge in emphasizing these conditions.
Page 413 - ... the one vital mental constitutional factor in the etiology of crime is defective intelligence.
Page 527 - With regard to intelligence, all indications are that the group of delinquent women is somewhat inferior to the general population, though the difference is slight and the overlapping large. This statement holds, though in varying degrees, whether we consider the separate sub-groups or the composite group. It should be noted, however, that our data have indicated...
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