Background
Glueck was born Leonia Touroff in Brooklyn, New York, the only daughter of Russian immigrant Bernard Leo and Polish immigrant Anna Wodzislawska, although she had two brothers.
criminologist social assistant
Glueck was born Leonia Touroff in Brooklyn, New York, the only daughter of Russian immigrant Bernard Leo and Polish immigrant Anna Wodzislawska, although she had two brothers.
Bachelor of Arts, Barnard College, 1920. Diploma New York School Social Work, 1921. Master of Education, Harvard, 1923, Doctor of Education, 1925, Doctor of Science, 1958.
They were the first criminologists to perform studies of chronic juvenile offenders and among the first to examine the effects of psychopathy among the more serious delinquents. Upon graduating from Hunter College High School in 1916, she majored in English at Barnard College and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in 1920. She then entered the New York School of Social Work, where she met the psychologist Bernard Glueck, Senior, who was a forensic psychiatrist at Sing Sing Prison specializing in social work and criminology.
She also met Bernard"s brother Sheldon Glueck, who helped her become head social worker at the Dorchester Community Center of Boston from 1921 to 1922.
In 1922, Glueck began her graduate school studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She was awarded a Master of Education in 1923 and an Editor.D. in 1925 with a thesis on The Community Use of Schools.
Their only child, Anitra Joyce (1924-1956) was a poet. They would collaborate on more than 250 publications, beginning with Five Hundred Criminal Careers (1930), followed by Five Hundred Delinquent Women (1934) and One Thousand Juvenile Delinquents (1934).
Foreign the juvenile delinquents, they made attempts to predict criminality using statistics, followed by the likelihood of their rehabilitation upon release.
They were the first criminologists to perform studies of chronic juvenile offenders and among the first to examine the effects of psychopathy among the more serious delinquents. Their studies showed that psychopathy was 20 times more common among juvenile delinquents. In 1940, they began a ten year longitudinal study that was published as Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency (1950).
This resulted in the Gluecks" "Social Prediction Tables" that gave predictions of the likelihood of juvenile delinquency based upon parameters from when the youths were six years old.
In 1953, she became a research associate at a Harvard Law School Research Project that was investigating the causes, treatment and prevention of juvenile delinquency. In 1947, the United Prison Association of Massachusetts awarded her its Parsons Memorial Award.
She was a trustee at the Judge Baker Guidance Center. She became a fellow with the International Society of Criminologists and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The couple retired during the 1960s.
Glueck accidentally drowned in a bathtub at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the age of 74.
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Society Criminology, National Association Social Workers, Massachusetts Conference Social Welfare, American Association U. Women, Associate Alumnae Barnard College (Distinguished Alumna award 1969), International Society Criminology, League Women Voters (Cambridge), Association New York School Social Work. Member editorial board International Journal Social Psychiatry.
Married Sheldon Glueck, April.