The Juvenile Court and the Jewish Community


 

Publication Date: March 1916

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Julius Drachsler

Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions

Keywords: Youth; Crime; Communal Organization

Type: Other

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The author shares the results of a recent study that examined the factors tending to produce delinquency among Jewish boys, including lack of control by the mother or father, lack of harmony in family life, neighborhood influence, personal characteristics, financial stress of the family, and lack of adequate school facilities. It then considers how the Jewish community can best act on this information through responsive and preventative educational and social services.

Bulletin of the National Conference of Jewish Charities, 6:8