The Institution Quarterly Volume 9 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...unusual circumstances, and not because of lack of intelligence or because of any discoverable immoral traits. "Group VI, Intelligence Quotient 83-95, six cases: Girls who appear to prefer the immoral and dissipated life. "Group VII, Intelligence Quotient 60-84, four cases: Girls trained in immorality before the period of puberty. "In general the girls have come from poor homes or homes inadequate to meet the social needs of adolescent girls. A large number have sought the streets for entertainment and company or have been forced, out of economic necessity, to work in factories; in either case, they have been thrown in with immoral associates, and have themselves become immoral. In practically every case classed in the first four groups the girls have become infatuated with some young boy near their own age, and not possessing adequate intelligence for controlling otherwise legitimate impulses, their instinctive desire for male companionship has led to immoral conduct. Only four of the entire number had become prostitutes. "The problem of delinquency is not so much one of cure as it is one of prevention. The process of cure is costly and the results unsatisfactory. The whole situation calls for diagnoses of mentality during the early years of school life, and more adequate facilities for training the dull normal child, thereby directing the lower one-fourth of the public school population into the channels of life and industry for which they are by nature best fitted. "If the schools were well equipped for diagnosing and training the moron and the dull normal it is a safe prophesy that delinquency and immorality among young girls would decrease by half." SOCIAL SERVICE WORK IN CHICAGO HOUSE OF CORRECTION.1 The first report of th...