The natural history of a delinquent career / Clifford R. Shaw, Maurice E. Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Clifford R., author.

Moore, Maurice E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 280 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : University of Chicago Press, 1931.

Summary:

"The life-history record is a relatively new instrument for the study of human behavior. As such it should be used with full consciousness of its values, limitations, and possible shortcomings. No one will question the value of the life-history as a human document when written freely and frankly. It admits the reader into the inner experience of other men, men apparently widely different from himself: criminals, hobos, and other adventurers. Through the life-history he becomes acquainted with those far removed from the sheltered routine of his own existence in much the same intimate way that he knows himself or a friend. As he lives, for the time being, their careers and participates in their memories and mistakes, aspirations and failures he comes to realize the basic likeness of all human beings despite the differences, real as they are, of biological endowment and social experience.

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