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JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

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5. Com Set COMMITTEE ON

LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE
UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S. 728

A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR ASSISTANCE TO AND COOPERATION WITH
STATES IN STRENGTHENING AND IMPROVING STATE AND LOCAL
PROGRAMS FOR THE CONTROL OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

S. 894

A BILL TO STRENGTHEN AND IMPROVE STATE AND LOCAL PRO-
GRAMS TO COMBAT AND CONTROL JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

S. 1088

A BILL TO ASSIST THE STATES TO RETURN RUNAWAY CHILDREN
TO THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES IN ANOTHER STATE

S. 1832

A BILL ESTABLISHING A NATIONAL YOUTH REHABILITATION
CORPS TO PROVIDE FOR THE REHABILITATION OF YOUTHFUL
DELINQUENTS THROUGH A PROGRAM OF SERVICE IN CONNECTION
WITH THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE NATURAL
RESOURCES OF THE NATION, SUCH PROGRAM TO INCLUDE GENERAL
EDUCATIONAL, VOCATIONAL, AND MILITARY TRAINING

JULY 6, 7, AND 8, 1955

Printed for the use of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare

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PAT MCNAMARA, Michigan

WILLIAM A. PURTELL, Connecticut GROVER C. SMITH, Chief Clerk of the Committee

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CONTENTS

Alinsky, Saul D., executive director, Industrial Areas Foundation,

Chicago, Ill..

Beck, Bertram, special juvenile delinquency project, with offices in

the Children's Bureau, Washington, D. C.

Coughlan, Barbara, director, Nevada State Welfare Department, Reno,
Nev..

Edwards, Hon. George, judge, circuit court, Detroit, Mich
Ehinger, George, chairman, national child welfare commission, the
American Legion_

Eliot, Dr. Martha M., Chief, Children's Bureau, Social Security Ad-
ministration, accompanied by Philip Green, Director, Juvenile De-
linquency Services, Children's Bureau

Finnegan, J. Francis, director of the Philadelphia Youth Services
Ccmmittee, and executive director of the Crime Prevention Com-
mittee, representing the American Municipal Association.
Hagen, Harold, child welfare consultant, American Public Welfare
Asscciation..

Hennings, Hon. Thomas C., Jr., a United States Senator from the
State of Missouri.

Jeffrey, Mildred, community relations representative, International

Union, UAW-CIO..

Loveland, Frank, Assistant Director, Bureau of Prisons, Department
of Justice..

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Walcott, Jersey Joe, special investigator, bureau of juvenile delin-
quency, department of police, city of Camden, N. J..

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Corbett, Gerald R., judge, juvenile court, Circuit Court of the First
Circuit, Territory of Hawaii.

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Markoff, Sol, general secretary, National Child Labor Committee

Mason, Lou Howard, administrator, State public welfare commission,

State of Oregon__

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Spokesmen for Children, by Robert C. Taher, director, division of
pupil personnel and counseling, board of education, Philadelphia,
Pa., and former chief probation officer of the municipal court of
Philadelphia__

State of Oregon, Public Welfare Commission, statement by Miss Loa
Howard on use of funds for return of runaway children__.

Stone, Mrs. Margaret F., statement on behalf of several organizations_

Survant, Mrs. E. L., chairman, advisory committee to the child wel-

fare division of the State department of public welfare, State of

Colorado

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Wyman, George K., director, department of social welfare, State of
California

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Additional information supplied for the record:

A Realistic Approach to New York City's Teen-Age Gang Prob-
lem, report on..

186

Additional remarks of Mrs. Mildred Jeffrey, UAW-CIO.
Comparison of provisions in S. 894 (Juvenile Deliquency Control Act)
and S. 728 (Deliquent Children's Act of 1955)__

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Delinquency cases disposed, juvenile court, age 7 to 15 (chart).
Delinquent children in juvenile courts (chart).

Crime and Juvenile Delinquency: Two of Our Greatest National
Problems, by Julius H. Miner, judge of the circuit court of Cook
County (Chicago), Ill.

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, as it would be under
S. 728 (chart) _ .

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Departmental reports on S. 728, S. 894, S. 1088, and S. 1832_
Detroit program for Unemployables and School Dropouts, by Warren
K. Layton..

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Developing Moral and Spiritual Values in Public Schools, by Gabriel

Abdullah..

Gaps are great in programs for serving delinquent youth (chart).
Juvenile delinquency proposal: Two types of grants (chart).
Letter to Senator Hendrickson, from George Edwards, judge of pro-
bate in charge of juvenile division, Wayne County probate court--
Material submitted by Charles I. Schottland, Commissioner, Social
Security Administration, relative to desirability of modifying the
proposed basis for allocating Federal funds to States.

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Planning grants (chart) -

Program grants (chart).

Proposed Juvenile Delinquency Control Act (H. R. 3771 and S. 894)-

Estimated allotments and State matching funds for (1) planning,

coordination, and training grants, and (2) strengthening and

improvement grants (table).

Proposed Juvenile Delinquency Control Act (S. 894)-Estimated

State matching for strengthening and improvement grants relative

to per capita income adjusted and unadjusted for Federal income

taxes (table) _ _

Public Welfare Responsibility in the Prevention and Treatment of

Juvenile Delinquency, reprinted from July 1954 issue of Public Wel-

fare..

Report of Ralph W. Whelan, executive director, New York City

Youth Board

Resolution adopted by UAW-CIO 15th Constitutional Convention,

March 27-April 1, 1955, Cleveland, Ohio.

Resolution concerning the Children's Bureau adopted at the 59th An-

nual Convention, National Congress of Parents and Teachers, Chi-

cago, Ill., May 25, 1955..

S. 728, a bill to provide for assistance to and cooperation with States

in strengthening and improving State and local programs for the

control of juvenile delinquency.

S. 894, a bill to strengthen and improve State and local programs to
combat and control juvenile delinquency-

S. 1088, a bill to assist the States to return runaway children to their

own communities in another State..

S. 1832, a bill establishing a National Youth Rehabilitation Corps to
provide for the rehabilitation of youthful delinquents through a
program of service in connection with the preservation and protec-
tion of the natural resources of the Nation, such program to include
general educational, vocational, and military training

Some Thoughts on Juvenile Delinquency, by John Steinbeck.

Testimony of the Division of Public Welfare of the Department of

Health of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico on S. 728-

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