Articles entitled-Continued "Professional-Volunteer-Client Interrelationships in Big Brother "Public Welfare Services and Juvenile Delinquency," by American "What the DeWitt Clinton Alumni Association Is Doing for the "You Can Help To Persuade Congress To Pass the 'Juvenile Delin- quency Control Projects' Bill," by the American Parents Com- mittee, Inc., Washington, D.C... Eliot, Dr. Martha M., suggested amendments to S. 694- Arbona, Guillermo, M.D., secretary of health, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, dated April 20, 1959, to Congresswoman Green... Broady, John, president, Minnesota Probation & Parole Association, Buehler, Roy E., associate professor, consultant on training, Oregon Juvenile Judges Association, Eugene, Oreg., dated April 21, 1959, Bull, Mrs. Fred, chairman of legislation, National Congress of Parents and Teachers, College Park, Md., to Congresswoman Green_- Clark, Philip, chairman, and Grace Bennett, secretary, Juvenile Cohen, Eli E., executive secretary, National Child Labor Committee, Cohen, Wilbur J., professor of public welfare administration, Uni- versity of Michigan, School of Social Work, Ann Arbor, Mich., dated June 3, 1959, to Senator Hill_ _ DeWitt Clinton Alumni Association, New York, N.Y., dated_May 22, 1959, to Stewart E. McClure, chief clerk, Committee on Labor Glass, Jack, director, circuit court for Lane County Juvenile Depart- Grant, Mrs. Bertha R., Mississippi Children's Code Commission, Hennings, Hon. Thomas C., chairman, Senate Subcommittee To Page 168 376 310 378 371 400 208 306 135, 256 Ikeda, Tsuguo, director, Seattle Atlantic Street Center, Seattle, Wash., dated April 29, 1959, to Senator Clark, containing special Langtry, Virgil, circuit judge, Portland, Oreg., dated April 27, 1959, to 205 Livenstein, Martin A., executive director, Fuld Neighborhood House, Merrill, Pearl, president, Child Guidance League, Brooklyn, N.Y., 374 Long, Hon. Donald E., court of domestic relations, Portland, Oreg., Romero, T. D., president, Board of Directors of State Institutions for water Royfe, E. H., director of programs and services, Big Brothers of America, Philadelphia, Pa., dated May 28, 1959, to Senator Joseph 218 374 Sherwood, Clarence C., director, Crime Prevention Program, New 372 373 Letters-Continued Stevens, Thelma, Women's Division of Christian Service of the Board Dated May 22, 1959, to Congressman Elliott- Tuttle, Edward H., community service consultant, regional health and Villaume, William J., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the Long, Judge Donald E., biographical data- Personnel shortages and estimates of training costs in the field of juvenile Report entitled "Some Possible Research and Demonstration Projects in Reprint from Social Work Yearbook, 1957, National Association of Suggestion for technical improvements in S. 694, S. 765, and S. 766......- Page 209 205 398 207 208 309 206 405 394 210 149 311 358 153 JUVENILE DELINQUENCY PREVENTION AND CONTROL MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1959 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON JUVENILE DELINQUENCY OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to call, Senator Joseph S. Clark (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senator Clark (presiding). Committee staff members present: Stewart E. McClure, chief clerk; Samuel V. Merrick, special counsel to the subcommittee; and G. F. Randolph, minority professional staff member. Senator CLARK. The subcommittee will be in session. This morning the Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare begins hearings on a number of legislative proposals designed to combat one of the most tragic social evils of 20-century America-juvenile crime. For the past several years the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary has conducted an exhaustive inquiry into the extent and character of juvenile delinquency, its causes and contributing factors. In the 84th Congress, largely as a result of the findings of that subcommittee, a number of bills aimed at the prevention and control of juvenile delinquency were introduced and referred to this committee. In 1956 the committee reported a major juvenile delinquency control bill which was passed by the Senate. Unfortunately, the Congress adjourned before the House acted on that bill. Over the weekend the subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, chaired by Senator Hennings of Missouri, has filed a most illuminating and helpful report on this whole subject, commenting on problems of juvenile control in a number of cities, including the District of Columbia. This subcommittee intends to coordinate its work with that of the subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee very closely. There will be complete cooperation between the two subcommittees in this field, as there has been in the past and as I am sure there will be in the future, and this is of the greatest possible assistance to this committee which has the legislative authority in the general welfare field dealing with juvenile delinquency. This year a renewed effort has begun to provide Federal leadership to assist States, communities and private organizations in finding ways to solve this national problem. 1 I think one of the problems we must face in this subcommittee is the extent of the need for Federal action and the extent to which the localities and the States can be required to deal with the problem itself. There is, of course, the same area of overlapping jurisdiction in this field that there is in a number of other programs affecting fundamentally metropolitan areas, programs such as housing and highways where local, State, and Federal action all are needed and all must combine in order to come out with an acceptable solution. Statistics compiled with the Subcommittee To Investigate Juvenile Delinquency have shown a steadily rising trend in the number of delinquent acts committed by children in the 10-to-17 age group. From 1948 to 1955 there was an increase of 70 percent in juvenile delinquent court cases, although the total number of children in the 10-to-17 age group during those years increased only 16 percent. The rate of increase since 1955 has been approximately the same, 7 or 8 percent each year. These figures are but one of the many striking evidences of the seriousness of this great and growing problem. The time has come for the Congress to take appropriate legislative action to decelerate, halt, and ultimately reverse this shocking trend. That is the objective of the hearings we are opening here today. The bills under consideration are S. 694, which was introduced by the chairman of this committee, Senator Lister Hill, and which I have the honor of cosponsoring; S. 765 and S. 766, which were introduced by Senator Thomas Hennings, chairman of the Subcommittee To Investigate Juvenile Delinquency-that is the subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee-with the cosponsorship of other members of his subcommittee; S. 1090, introduced by Senator Hubert Humphrey; and S. 1341, introduced by the ranking minority member of this subcommittee, Senator Jacob Javits. I should like to ask that copies of each of these bills be inserted in the record at this point. (The bills referred to and departmental reports thereon follow:) [S. 694, 86th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To provide Federal assistance for projects which will demonstrate or develop techniques and practices leading to a solution of the Nation's juvenile delinquency control problems Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Juvenile Delinquency Control Project Act”. FINDINGS SEC. 2. The Congress hereby finds and declares that (1) juvenile delinquency, since it is a social problem that deflects children in their growth toward responsible citizenship, diminishes the strength and vitality of the Nation; and (2) juvenile delinquency is a steadily mounting problem of nationwide proportions in both urban and rural communities, and that more concerted and intensive efforts to discover, and to disseminate, means of controlling such problems are vitally needed. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS; PURPOSES FOR WHICH AVAILABLE SEC. 3. (a) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1960, and for each of the four succeeding fiscal years, the sum |