[CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD] [JUVENILE DELINQUENCY] PORTERFIELD, Austin L.

Youth In Trouble: Studies in Delinquency and Despair. With Plans for Prevention

Fort Worth: Leo Potishman Foundation, 1946. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover, titled in gilt; dustjacket; 136pp; included bibliography. Tight, square copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $1.50 on front flap), lightly rubbed and worn, Very Good or better. Ownership signature of Wiley B. Sanders to front endpaper (see note below).

Porterfield, a pioneering sociologist at Texas Christian University, seeks to demonstrate that juvenile criminal behavior is nearly always related to parental neglect or abuse, and asserts that it is the responsibility of the community to provide a surrogate: "...the community is responsible for all youth whose parents fail them and for the training and improvement of oppoortunities of parents so that they can escape failure..." (from jacket copy). Includes three detailed case studies and a wealth of statistical data. This copy with the ownership signature of Porterfield's contemporary and colleague, University of North Carolina sociologist Wiley Britton Sanders (1898-1973).

Price: $200.00

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