Juvenile Delinquency in an English Middletown

an approach which is neither purely a mass of statistics nOr such a specialized view of the subject that one facet only is given intensive consideration. In this ecological study of a region, in which the problem is viewed from as many aspects as available data makes possible, the material is drawn largely from probation and supervision cases appearing before the local Juvenile Court; the 109 pre-war cases included 1 Care and Protection case and 11 Beyond Control, while the 123 wartime cases included 3 Care and Protection and 13 Beyond Control. The inclusion, among the wartime cases, of 20 evacuees living variously with parents or relations, billeted with foster parents and living at a Hostel for difficult children, provides an interesting group for certain comparisons, and furthers the author's purpose to indicate the interaction of social conditions within a geographically limited area. Reference is frequently made to reports from the relatively few places in which similar approaches to the study of the problem have been attempted, but it is to be regretted that lack of uniformity of data analysis has made necessary all too frequently the comment that, for purposes of comparison, the value of the data available from many of the previous reports is questionable because of its scantiness, or because the methods of classification used have been so different that all but the broadest