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Sheldon Glueck was a Polish-American criminologist.
Background
Glueck was born on August 15, 1896 in Warsaw, Poland, one of seven children of Charles Glueck and Anna Steinhardt. The Glueck family immigrated to the United States in 1903 and settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His father had owned a small steel shop in Poland, but after settling in Milwaukee he worked as a street peddler.
Education
During 1910s, Glueck took night courses in law at Georgetown University and night courses in the humanities at George Washington University. In 1917 he enlisted in the United States Army and for fifteen months served as sergeant with the "Rainbow Division" of the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I. Upon his return to the United States, he resumed his studies at George Washington University and received his B. A. degree in the humanities in 1920. Also in 1920, Glueck received an LL. B. and an LL. M. from the National University Law School, became a naturalized United States citizen, and passed the New York bar. He was given honorary doctorate by Harvard University in 1958.
Career
Glueck was employed by the United States Shipping Board from 1919 to 1922. He was preparing to practice law in New York when his older brother, Bernard Glueck, a forensic psychiatrist at Sing Sing prison, arranged for him to meet Eleanor Touroff, one of his graduate students from the New York School of Social Work. This marked the beginning of a remarkable intellectual partnership in social science research that would last fifty years. Glueck fell in love with Touroff and followed her to Boston, where she had taken a position as head of a settlement house. In Boston, Glueck decided to continue his education. After being denied admission to Harvard Law School, Glueck was admitted to the Department of Social Ethics at Harvard University, an interdisciplinary precursor to the Sociology Department. In this department, Glueck received an M. A. in 1922 and a Ph. D. in 1924. His Ph. D. thesis focused on criminal responsibility, mental disorder, and criminal law and reflected his interests in sociology, law, and psychiatry. After serving as an instructor in the Department of Social Ethics at Harvard from 1925 to 1927, Glueck received an appointment at Harvard Law School as assistant professor of criminology. He was promoted to professor in 1932, and was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law in 1950, a position he held until he became professor emeritus in 1963. For more than forty years at Harvard Law School, Glueck and his wife studied the careers of juvenile delinquents and adult criminals, becoming internationally renowned for their research concerning the causes, treatment, and prevention of crime and delinquency. Seeking to merge theory and practice, the Gluecks' scholarly interests cut across the disciplines of law, sociology, psychology, biology, education, and social work. The Gluecks conducted four major studies of delinquency and crime. Their first research project was a follow-up study of 510 male offenders who had been incarcerated at the Massachusetts Reformatory during the period 1911-1922. These offenders were studied over a fifteen-year span, resulting in three books, Five Hundred Criminal Careers (1930), Later Criminal Careers (1937), and Criminal Careers in Retrospect (1943). The second research project was a follow-up study of women who had been incarcerated at the Women's Reformatory in Framingham, Massachussets, which led to the publication of Five Hundred Delinquent Women (1934). A third major research effort focused on a sample of juveniles who had been referred by the Boston Juvenile Court to the Judge Baker Foundation. These results were published in One Thousand Juvenile Delinquents (1934); a follow-up analysis produced Juvenile Delinquents Grown Up (1940). Each of these studies was characterized by meticulous documentation of the experiences of offenders after their involvement with the criminal justice system, and each study revealed high rates of continued criminal activity among these offenders. In 1940 the Gluecks began work on their best-known study, Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency (1950). This ten-year project addressed the development of criminal careers and involved a detailed examination of 500 delinquents and 500 nondelinquents from disadvantaged neighborhoods in the Boston area. Then, for the next fifteen years, the Gluecks conducted an extensive follow-up of the original sample of delinquents and nondelinquents, resulting in the publication of Delinquents and Non-Delinquents in Perspective (1968). Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency established the Gluecks as true pioneers in the study of crime and juvenile delinquency. Along with his extensive collaborative work in criminology, Glueck focused attention on issues relating to criminal law and criminal procedure. Glueck served as an adviser to Justice Robert H. Jackson during the Nuremberg Trials. He also had a longstanding interest in mental health, psychiatry, and the law, which was reflected in his books Mental Disorder and the Criminal Law (1925) and Law and Psychiatry: Cold War or Entente Cordiale? (1962). And, finally, throughout his career, he promoted reform of the administration of criminal justice. In 1980, eight years after his wife's death, Glueck died in Cambridge, Massachussets.
Member of the Supreme Court's Advisory Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Interests
Glueck's non-academic interests included writing plays, short stories, and children's stories and international travel.
Connections
Glueck married Leonia Touroff on April 16, 1922; they had one daughter, Joyce Glueck Rosberg, a poet, who died at age thirty-two.
Recipient Isaac Ray award American Psychiatric Association, 1961. (with wife) August Vollmer award American Society Criminology, 1961. Gold medal Institute Criminal Anthropology, U. Rome, 1964.tempSpaceBeccaria Gold medal German Society Criminology, 1964.
Recipient Isaac Ray award American Psychiatric Association, 1961. (with wife) August Vollmer award American Society Criminology, 1961. Gold medal Institute Criminal Anthropology, U. Rome, 1964.tempSpaceBeccaria Gold medal German Society Criminology, 1964.
the Gold Medal of the Institute of Criminal Anthropology at the University of Rome
1964
1964
the August Vollmer Award of the American Society of Criminology
1961
1961
Isaac Ray Award of the American Psychiatric Association
1961
1961
and the Beccaria Gold Medal from the German Society of Criminology