Sheldon Glueck

Sheldon Glueck
Born(1896-08-15)August 15, 1896
Warsaw, Poland
DiedMarch 10, 1980(1980-03-10) (aged 83)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
NationalityPolish-American
Occupationcriminologist

Sheldon Glueck (August 15, 1896 – March 10, 1980) was a Polish-American criminologist.[1] He and his wife Eleanor Glueck collaborated extensively on research related to juvenile delinquency and developed the "Social Prediction Tables" model for predicting the likelihood of delinquent behavior in youth. 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.[2]

  1. ^ Staff report (March 13, 1980). Sheldon Glueck of Harvard Dies; Studied the Roots of Delinquency. New York Times
  2. ^ Staff report (September 26, 1972). Eleanor Glueck, expert on crime; Writer on delinquency with her husband dead at 74. New York Times