Law School Receives $20,000 Ford Grant To Study Delinquency

A $200,000 grant by the Ford Foundation will push pioneer research in juvenile delinquency, being carried on at the Law School, Dean Erwin Griswold announced yesterday.

The gift was made to the Law School in support of delinquency studies conducted by Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, and his wife, Dr. Eleanor T. Glueck. It will be used to further develop their latest research project, a comparison of 500 delinquent boys, matched case for case, with 500 non-delinquents.

The Foundation made the grant under a mandate to its trustees to support "scientific activities designed to increase knowledge of factors which influence or determine human conduct."

"Law in Action"

Professor Glueck commented yesterday-"It is extremely gratifying that this type of research is being conducted in a great law school, since it augurs well for a fundamental development in legal research which might well be based not only on the law in books, but the law in action."

The latest results of the Glueck's research were set forth in their books, "Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency" and "Delinquents in the Making," but follow-up studies are still being made.

At the moment they are seeking to verify the set of "prognostic tables" developed from this research, by which they hope to detect tendencies to delinquency at an early age.