West Side Studies: Boyhood and Lawlessness; The Neglected Girl

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INDEX

• INDEX
• Abattoirs on West Side: location of, [3]
• Acquittal: in children’s court, [92]
• Adenoids: In court cases studied, [90]
• Ages of Boys Studied, [167]
• American-born Parents of Boys: nationality of, [7], [169]
• Anthony, Katharine: Mothers Who Must Earn, cited, [7], [59], [141]
• Arrests of Boys: court disposition of cases involving, [92-95], [97], [172];
• for trivial offenses, [18], [19];
• for trivial offenses, elimination of, preferable to cursory treatment in court, [107];
• mistaken, [97], [98];
• offenses in 463 cases, according to court charges, [82];
• offenses in 463 cases, as classified by Bureau of Social Research, [16], [17];
• previous, failure of faulty court records to show, [90]
• Assault: boys arrested for, according to court charges, [82];
• boys arrested for, according to classification of Bureau of Social Research, [17];
• penal law regarding, cited, [81];
• street fighting and, [37]
• Background of the West Side Boy, [1-9]
• Bail: seldom demanded at S. P. C. C. headquarters, [89];
• when not required, in cases of juvenile delinquency, [88]
• Ball Playing: illegality of, [37].
• See Baseball
• Balls: on West Side, [154]
• Baseball: on the West Side, [29], [30], [31], [32], [33]
• Begging: by children whose mothers are “harborers,” [73];
• by West Side boys, [151]
• Big Brother Movement: as a source of names of boys, [167];
• probation work of, [86], [87]
• Bonfires: boys’ fondness for, [25], [26];
• stealing wood for, as a cause of gang warfare, [48]
• Boss, the: and the children’s court, [88], [89]
• Boxing: on the West Side, [29], [33], [34], [35], [36]
• Boy from Another State: on West Side, case of, [22]
• Boy Scout Movement: illustrates possibilities in gang for good, [40]
• Boys, West Side: ages of those studied, [167];
• and the court, [79-140];
• background of, [1-9];
• court disposition of cases involving arrests of, [95], [172], [173];
• drinking by, [146], [147];
• fighting by, [143], [144];
• gainfully employed, occupation and wages of, [175];
• games of, [24-38];
• gang life of, [39-54];
• growth in lawlessness of, [15];
• homes of, [55-78];
• lack of stamina of, [156];
• not arrested, who were included in study of delinquents, [95];
• not gainfully employed, status of, [174];
• not properly delinquent, [95], [99], [100];
• offenses of, largely excusable, [18];
• offenses in 463 cases of arrest of, [16], [17], [82];
• playground of, [10-23];
• recreation of, beyond control of family, [77];
• scope of study of delinquency of, [94], [95];
• sexual immorality of, [154];
• smoking by, [145];
• sources from which names of those studied were obtained, [167];
• spendings and earnings of, [68], [69];
• stealing by, [141], [142];
• successful institution cases among, [127], [128];
• truancy of, [148-151];
• truancy records of, classified as delinquent or not delinquent, [173];
• two types of, [157], [159];
• wanderlust of, [151-154];
• who are brought into court, [87-95];
• who are let go, [95-107];
• who are paroled, [107-116];
• who are “sent up,” [117-138]
• Boys’ Republic: George Ruhl sent to a, [158]
• Bransfields: reputation of, [112]
• Breweries on West Side: location of, [3]
• “Bruisers”: rather than real prize fighters furnish example to West Side boy, [36]
• Budget, Family: often inadequate to cover requisites for healthy growth, [60]
• Burckel, James: value of neighborhood testimony in case of, [112]
• Bureau of Social Research: offenses in 463cases of arrest as classified by, [16], [17]
• Burglary: and unlawful entry, penal law regarding, [81];
• arrest of boys for, [17], [82]
• Burns, Joey: who had not been in court, [98]
• Caliban of the West Side: and his Setebos, [80]
• Carson, Mr.: parole of Jimmie to, [150]
• Cartwright, O. G.: The Middle West Side, cited, [4], [6]
• Catesby, Mrs.: case of, [72], [73]
• Catholic Ladies’ Committee: probation work of, [85], [86]
• Catholic Probation League: work of, [85]
• Catholic Protectory: children received by, [118], [119];
• commitment by children’s court to, [94]
• Central Presbyterian Church: Big Brother movement in, [86]
• Charitable Institutions: commitment by children’s court to, [94]
• Charitable Societies. See Relief Records; Relief Societies
• Charity Organization Society: as a source of names of boys, [167]
• Chicago: probation cases and officers in, [87]
• Child Labor Law: arrests for violation of, in children’s court, [82]
• Child Welfare Exhibit, New York: Handbook cited, on trivial offenses, [95]
• Children: number of, in families studied, [58], [170]
• Children, Neglected: children’s court commits to charitable institutions, [94]
• Children’s Court, Manhattan: as viewed by West Side boy and his parents, [80];
• description of growth, equipment, and processes of, [80-84];
• disposition of cases in, [92], [93], [94], [172], [173];
• hearings in, cursory and hurried, [97], [105], [106], [107];
• investigation in, [90], [91], [92], [110];
• judges of, [83];
• parole system of, [107-116];
• probation cases and officers of, [87];
• progress made in, since 1910, [79], [83], [87], [90], [111], [120];
• records in, consulted in study of commitment cases, [118];
• records in, faulty, [90];
• records in, new system of, [90], [111];
• records in, samples quoted, [110], [111];
• reputed influence of “boss” in, [88], [89];
• summary of results of action by, in cases studied, [138-140];
• things needed to increase effectiveness of, [107], [140];
• trials in, average time given to each, [83].
• See also Juvenile Court; Juvenile Delinquency; Probation
• Children’s Courts: where defects corrected in Manhattan still exist, [79]
• Church: among sources from which boys’ names obtained for study, [167]
• Church, a Deserted: on West Side, [3]
• Churches: not consulted in court investigations, [114];
• probation work of, [85-87]
• Cigarettes: boys’ demand for, [142], [145]
• Civil Service Commission, New York Municipal: refusal of, to declare positions of physicians for children’s court exempt, [140]
• Club Studies: as a source of names of boys, [167]
• Coal and Wood: theft of, a matter of course on West Side, [18], [141]
• Coal Yards on West Side: location of, [3]
• Comedy, Meredithian: on West Side, [161]
• Commission to Inquire Into the Courts of Inferior Criminal Jurisdiction in Cities of the First Class.
• See Page Commission
• Commitment, Court: considerations that guide judge in determining on, [119];
• different attitudes of parents toward, [124-126];
• during parole, in cases studied, [116];
• effectiveness of, [117], [137], [138], [139];
• frequently made on insufficient evidence, [119], [120];
• institutions to which made, [94], [118-119];
• length of, compared with length of parole period, [109];
• theory of, [117]
• Committed Cases: absence of investigation in, [119];
• scope and method of study of, [118];
• where sentence a serious error, [120], [121]
• “Committed for One Day to the Parental Care of John Ward,” [93], [96]
• Concealed Weapons: carrying of, among boys, [45]
• Conjugal Condition: of parents of boys, [171]
• Coogan, Patrick: and his court experience, [98]
• “Cops,” “Dinnys,” AND “Gerrys” on West Side, [13]
• Corrections, Department of: former building of, used as children’s court, [83]
• Coulter, Ernest K.: Big Brother movement initiated by, [86]
• Country of Birth: of parents of boys, [168]
• Court Disposition: of cases of boys studied, [172], [173].
• See Children’s Court
• Court, Getting Into, [87-95].
• See Children’s Court
• Court, Juvenile: lack of respect for, among boys, [19], [20].
• See Children’s Court
• Court List: names of boys obtained from, [167]
• Court of Special Sessions: children’s court part of the, [83].
• See Children’s Court
• Cowardice: among West Side gangs. [52], [53], [54]
• Craps, Shooting: a year round amusement on West Side, [28];
• leads to arrest for obstructing sidewalks, [37]
• Criminal Record: of Middle West Side, [8], [13], [19]
• Criminal Tendency: spirit of youth forced to become a, [38]
• Cruelty of West Side Boys, [157]
• Dances: among amusements offered to West Side boy, [154]
• Dark Rooms: common on West Side, [56]
• “Death Avenue,” [4]
• Delinquency of Boys: bail in cases of, [88];
• scope of study of, [94], [95].
• See Juvenile Delinquency
• Delinquent Boys: those studied who were not properly so called, [95], [99], [100], [173]
• Delinquents: commitment of, by children’s court, to reformatories, [94]
• Detention Home of Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, [8].
• See Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
• De Witt Clinton Park: described, [4], [5];
• the only park on Middle West Side, [10]
• Diamond Laundry: Matty Gilmore and the, [104]
• “Dinnys,” “Cops,” AND “Gerrys” on West Side, [13]
• Discharge: of boys against whom no evidence found, [96].
• See also Dismissal
• Discharges: following parole, in cases studied, [116]
• Discipline: meted out to the boy, [70], [71]
• Dismissal for Insufficient Evidence: In children’s court, [92]
• Disorderly Child: boys arrested as, according to court charges, [82];
• penal law regarding, [81]
• Disorderly Conduct: boys arrested for, [82]
• Disposition of Children’s Court Cases, [92-95], [97], [172].
• See Children’s Court
• Docks: attraction of, for the boy, [20];
• baseball on the, [33].
• See also Quays
• Donnelly, Martin: a “successful” institution case, [127]
• Dooley, Mrs.: and her Joseph, [71]
• Doyle, Dennis: stone throwing by, [15], [129]
• Doyle, Mrs.: and her five boys, [128]
• Doyle, Patrick: delinquency record of, [130], [131], [132]
• Doyle, Raymond: delinquency record of, [129], [130], [131], [132], [134]
• Draft Riots: typical of West Sider’s temper, [7]
• Drinking: among West Side boys, [146]
• Drunkenness: among West Side boys, [146], [147]
• “Dumb-bell” Tenements: common on West Side, [56]
• Earnings and Spendings: of the West Side boy, [68], [69]
• East Side and West Side: compared, [6], [7]
• Education Law, Compulsory: boys arrested for violations of, [82]
• Eighth Avenue: characteristics of, [2]
• Election Night Bonfires, [26].
• See also Bonfires
• Eleventh Avenue: characteristics of, [3], [4]
• Employed and Unemployed Boys, [174], [175]
• Employers: statements from, in parole cases, [110], [113]
• Employment: low grade, sought by West Side boys, [159]
• English Parentage: of parents of boys, [8]
• Environment: influence of, [1]
• Equity Powers: needed by children’s court, [140]
• Eyes: bad, in court cases studied, [90];
• neglect to care for, [60]
• Families of Boys Studied: conjugal condition of parents in, [59], [171];
• country of birth and nationality of parents in, [168], [169];
• different attitudes of, toward commitment, [124-126];
• length of residence in district of, [1], [168];
• number involved in delinquency study, [94];
• number of children in, [58], [170];
• persons in households of, and rooms occupied by, [169];
• relief records of, [171], [172];
• statements from, secured in study of commitment cases, [118];
• status of mothers in, [170];
• varying types represented among, [59]
• Families, West Side:
• typical day of housewife in, [58], [59].
• See also Mothers; Parents
• Family From Another State: on West Side, case of boy in, [22]
• Family Quarrels: in a “model” tenement, [58]
• Fathers of Boys Studied: absence of, as a cause of delinquency, [125];
• American-born, nationality of, [7], [169];
• conjugal condition of, [171];
• country of birth of, [7], [168];
• influence of, in family life, [61].
• See also Parents
• Feeble-mindedness: back of some court cases studied, [90].
• See also Mental Examination
• Ferry Rides To Jersey: the “sneaking” of, [150]
• “Fêtes” on West Side, [154]
• Feuds on West Side, [143], [144]
• Fighting: and boxing not necessarily associated, [34];
• between gangs of West Side boys, [45-53];
• street, and assault, [37];
• with fists on West Side, [143].
• See also Prize Fighting; Boxing
• Fines: in children’s court cases, [93], [96]
• Fire-Arms: arrest of boys for use of, [17].
• See also Weapons
• Fire Pots, [25], [26]
• Folks, Homer: quoted on parole, [85]
• Food: adulterated and damaged, commonly sold on West Side, [75]
• Fuel: theft of, regarded as a matter of course on West Side, [141]
• Games of the West Side Boy, [24-38]
• Gang: a typical, history of, [40], [41];
• responsibility of, for lawlessness of West Side boy, [39];
• synonymous with worst side of boy life on West Side, [54]
• Gang Fights: among boys on West Side, [45-53]
• Gang Life: salient features of, [42], [43], [44]
• Garbage Disposal Pier: on Twelfth Avenue, [5]
• Gas Tanks: location of, on West Side, [3]
• Gates, Mrs.: and her Jimmy, [64], [65]
• German Element: on Middle West Side, [7]
• German Parentage: of American-born parents of boys, [7], [8]
• Germany: parents of boys born in, [7]
• “Gerry Men”: dreaded more than the court, [90];
• unpopularity of, on West Side, [13]
• Gilmore, Matty: case of, [103], [104]
• “Gopher Gang,” [42]
• Great Kill Swamp, [4]
• Guardianship, Improper: among offenses leading to arrest of boys, [16];
• arraignment of children for, [81];
• boys arrested for, according to court charges, [82];
• child dismissed under one charge may be returned for, [92];
• warrants issued in cases of, [94]
• Haggerty, Mrs.: her system of discipline, [70]
• Hallways: boys’ use of, [20], [21]
• Hannon, Mrs.: and the “boss” in court, [88], [89]
• “Harborers”: mothers who are, [73]
• Harris, Charlie: stories about, [157]
• Hawthorne School: Big Brother work for boys paroled from, [87];
• commitment by children’s court to, [94].
• See also Jewish Protectory
• Health Conditions: involved in court cases studied, [90]
• Hearings at Children’s Court: cursory and hurried, [97], [105], [106], [107].
• See also Trials
• Home Conditions: in court cases studied, [90]
• Home of the West Side Boy, [55-78]
• House of Good Shepherd: extreme cases of delinquent girls sent to, [119]
• House of Mercy: Protestant girls sent to, [119]
• House of Refuge: and Jewish Big Brother movement, [87];
• class of cases received by, [119];
• commitment by children’s court to, [94]
• Housewife of West Side: day of the, [58], [59]
• Housing Conditions on West Side, [56], [57], [58]
• Hudson River Railroad: franchise of, an anomaly, [4]
• Husbands, Shiftless: treatment of, by their wives, [63], [64]
• Immorality, Sexual: among West Side boys, [154-156]
• Institution Cases: successful, [127], [128]
• Institutions: no critical examination made of, [117], [118];
• to which children’s court commits, [94], [118], [119].
• See also Commitment
• Insurance Companies: and window glass on West Side, [15]
• Intoxication: among West Side boys, [146];
• as a cause of arrest of boys, [17]
• Investigation: in children’s court, before disposition of case, [90], [91], [92];
• in commitment of cases studied, absence of, [119];
• in parole cases, how made, [110-114];
• rewards for, a light form of punishment, [97]
• Ireland: parents of boys born in, [7]
• Irish: of Middle West Side, [7]
• Irish Parentage: of parents of boys, [8]
• Italy: parents of boys born in, [7]
• “Jersey”: “sneaking” ferry rides to, [150]
• Jewish Big Brother Movement: probation work of, [86], [87]
• Jewish Protectory and Aid Society: probation work of, [86].
• See also Hawthorne School
• Jimmy: who was caught “when he wasn’t doin’ anything bad,” [19]
• Judges in Children’s Court: attitude of boys toward, [20], [80];
• formerly and at present, [83].
• See also Children’s Court
• Juvenile Asylum: commitment by children’s court to, [94], [119]
• Juvenile Court: boys’ contempt for judges in, [20];
• understanding of neighborhood conditions essential in estimating work of, [9].
• See also Children’s Court
• Juvenile Delinquency: a product of conditions in homes and on streets, [140];
• as defined in New York, [80], [81];
• need of equity powers by court dealing with, [140]
• Juvenile Delinquents: history of probation system for, in New York, [84-87]
• Juvenile Offenders: consideration of background essential to study of, [1]
• Juvenile Probation in New York: Homer Folks, quoted, [85]
• Kite Flying: on West Side, [28]
• Larceny, Grand and Petty: boys arrested for, [82];
• penal law regarding, [81]
• Larrabie, John: and the organ-grinder, [129], [134]
• Lawyers: extent to which involved in proceedings of children’s court, [91]
• “Lickings”: place of, in children’s court scheme, [93]
• “Loitering”: as an offense against the law, [37]
• Lumber Yards on West Side: location of, [3]
• McCarthy, Mrs.: and her worthless husband, [64]
• McGratty, Joseph: case of, [133]
• Machine Shops on West Side: location of, [3]
• Macy, Mrs.: a minder of children at twelve, [62]
• Mail, Evening, New York:
• quoted on vandalism on West Side, [144]
• Mallory, Hugh: case of, [101], [102]
• Mallory, Mrs.: her strong and weak points as a mother, [102]
• Manhattan Children’s Court.
• See Children’s Court
• Marbles: games played with, on West Side, [24];
• may lead to arrest for obstructing sidewalk, [37]
• Meals: irregularity of, in families of boys, [75]
• Mental Concentration: impossible to West Side boy, [156]
• Mental Examination: need of, and arrangements for, in children’s court cases, [140]
• Meredithian Comedy on West Side, [161]
• Mischief and Annoyance: arrest of boys for offenses of, [17]
• Misdemeanors: penal law regarding, [81]
• “Model” Tenement: a social worker’s testimony regarding family brawls in a, [58]
• Money: boys’ ways of getting, [151]
• Moral Stamina: lacking in West Side boy, [156]
• Morally Depraved: boys arrested as in danger of being, according to court charges, [82]
• Moran, Johnnie: story, [161], [162]
• Moran, John and Michael: delinquency records of, [121-124]
• Moran, Mrs.: and her “ways of finding out,” [66];
• character of, [121]
• Mothers of Boys Studied: absence of, a cause of delinquency, [125];
• American-born, nationality of, [7], [169];
• conjugal condition of, [171];
• country of birth of, [7], [168];
• court experiences of, [105], [106];
• problems and types of, [55], [61-74], [76-78];
• statements of, secured by parole officer, [110];
• status of, [170].
• See also Parents
• Moving Picture Shows: among amusements offered West Side boy, [154];
• desire of boys for, incites to theft, [142];
• opinions of mothers regarding, [68]
• Muller, Charlie: case of, [131], [132], [133]
• Murphy, Denny: wanderings of, [152-154]
• Names of Boys: those used fictitious
• Nationality: of American-born parents of boys, [7], [169];
• of parents of boys studied, [7].
• See also Country of Birth
• Neighbors: statements from, included in study of commitment cases, [118];
• statements of, obtained by parole officer, [110];
• value of testimony of, [112]
• New York Central. See Hudson River Railroad
• New York Children’s Court. See Children’s Court
• New York City Probation System. See Probation
• New York Juvenile Asylum: commitment by children’s court to, [94], [119]
• Newspapers, New York: quoted, [49], [50], [144], [161]
• Ninth Avenue: characteristics of, [2]
• Nourishment: available in West Side families, often inadequate, [60]
• Nutrition, Infant: ignorance regarding, in West Side families, [75]
• Obstructing the Sidewalks: games which lead to arrest for, [37]
• Occupation and Wages: of boys gainfully employed, [175]
• Offenses: due to play, enumerated, [37]
• Offenses in 463 Cases of Arrest of Boys: according to court charges, [82];
• as classified by Bureau of Social Research, [16], [17]
• Offenses of Boys: serious, few arrests for, [19];
• to which arrests due, largely excusable, [18]
• Offenses of Children: for which bail is not required, [88];
• still registered according to law violated, [81];
• trivial, proportion of, according to Handbook of Child Welfare Exhibit, [95]
• “Paddy’s Market,” [2]
• Page Commission: improvements in children’s court recommended by, [84]
• Parents of Boys: conjugal condition of, [171];
• country of birth of, [7], [168];
• different attitudes of, toward commitment of children, [124-126];
• nationality of American-born, [7], [169];
• responsibility of, for misdemeanors of sons, [56];
• value of testimony of, [112].
• See also Families; Father; Mother
• Parents, Parole in Custody of. See Parole
• Parks: none except De Witt Clinton on Middle West Side, [10].
• See De Witt Clinton Park
• Parole: and probation in New York, [85];
• correct meaning of term, [107];
• outcome of, in cases studied, [115], [116];
• period of, [109];
• system of, in Manhattan Children’s Court, [93], [107-116]
• Parole Card: form of, [108]
• Paroled Cases: final disposition of, [173];
• study of, [107-116]
• Parties and Dances: on West Side, [154]
• Pay Envelope: boy’s duty regarding, as viewed by community, [68]
• Peddling Without License: penal law regarding, [81]
• Penal Law: juvenile delinquency according to the, [80], [81]
• People’s Institute: new work on West Side undertaken by, [5]
• Perversion, Sexual: among West Side boys, [155]
• Physical Examination: needed in many cases brought to children’s court, [140]
• Physical Stamina: lacking in West Side boy, [156]
• Piano Factories: on West Side, location of, [3]
• Picking Pockets: arrest of boys for, [17]
• Piers Owned by City: and their uses, [5]
• Pigeon Flying: as a West Side sport, [28], [29];
• disapproved by mothers, [67]
• Pitching Pennies: a year round amusement on West Side, [28];
• may lead to arrest for obstructing sidewalk, [37]
• Play: Offenses due to, among those for which boys arrested, [16]
• Playground: of West Side boy, [10-23]
• Plunkett of Tammany Hall: quoted, [89]
• Police: attitude of, toward boys’ offenses, [18];
• boys’ antagonism to, explained, [12];
• fires extinguished by, [25];
• situation regarding, on West Side, [13], [14], [15], [16], [19]
• Police Sergeant: discretion permitted to, regarding bail, [88]
• Political “Boss”: and children’s court, [88], [89]
• Poolrooms: on West Side, [154]
• Post-Graduate Hospital: clinic conducted by Dr. Max Schlapp at, [140]
• Poverty: in West Side homes, [60], [61].
• See also Relief Records
• Prison Association, New York: first probation bill as prepared by, [84]
• Prize Fighting: and the West Side boy, [33], [34], [35], [36]
• Probation: and parole, in children’s court, [85], [107];
• class of boys for whom likely to be most effective, [103]
• Probation Agencies, Volunteer: history and scope of, [85-87];
• part played by, in first court experience of boy, [92];
• proportion of paroled cases studied that were under care of, [115]
• Probation Commission of State of New York: report of, quoted, [84]
• Probation Law, First: in New York, [84]
• Probation Officers, Official: in New York, appointment and numbers of, [87];
• preliminary investigation by, [90]
• Probation Staff: an adequate and efficient, needed, [107]
• Probation Work: essentials to efficient, [139]
• Property: antagonism between sport and the rights of, [37], [38];
• destruction of, on West Side, [144];
• offenses against, leading to arrest of boys, [17], [82]
• Push Cart Vendors: on Ninth Avenue, [2]
• Quays: as a field for baseball, [32].
• See also Docks
• Rafferty, Joe and Harry: cases of, [135], [136], [137];
• gang associates and adventures of, [129], [133], [134]
• Rafferty, Mrs.: case of, [135]
• Railroad and Appurtenances: boys arrested for injury to, [82]
• “Railroad” Tenements: common on West Side, [56]
• Rearrests Following Parole: in cases studied, [116]
• Records in Children’s Court: old and new, [90], [111]
• Recreation: of West Side boy, beyond control of family, [77]
• Recreation Activities: on Middle West Side, and the People’s Institute, [5]
• Recreation Pier: on Twelfth Avenue, [5]
• “Red”: and his wanderings with Denny Murphy, [152-154]
• Reformatories: commitment to, by children’s court, [94];
• short-term commitments refused by, [92]
• Relief Records: of families of boys, [171], [172]
• Relief Societies: duration of relief records of families known to have received aid from, [172];
• records of, consulted in study of commitment cases, [118];
• records of, not consulted in children’s court cases, [114]
• Remand for Investigation: did not necessarily mean further inquiry, [97]
• Reproduction: ignorance of West Side boys regarding, [155]
• Residences in District: of families of boys, length of, [168]
• Retrial: rare in suspended sentence cases, [96]
• Revenge: among West Side boys, [156], [157]
• Riding on Freight Cars, etc.: boys arrested for, [82];
• penal law regarding, [81]
• Riemer, Henry and Alexander: cases of, [134], [135], [136]
• Riley, George: case of, [130]
• Riley, James: report of investigation in case of, [111]
• Riordan, W. L.: Plunkett of Tammany Hall, quoted, [89]
• Robbery: boys arrested for, [82];
• penal law regarding, [81].
• See also Burglary; Theft; Thievery
• Roman Catholic Priest: quoted on gangs, [54]
• Rooms in West Side Tenement Houses: dark, [56];
• lack of privacy in, [57], [58]
• Rooms, Number of: occupied by families of boys, [169]
• Rooney, Matthew: case of, [131], [136]
• Ruhl, George: case of, [158]
• St. Vincent de Paul Society: Catholic Probation League organized under auspices of, [85]
• Saloon: children’s visits to, [146]
• “Scenery Burned by Vandals,” [144]
• Schlapp, Dr. Max: children sent for mental examination to clinic conducted by, [140]
• School: as a source of names of boys, [167];
• principal of, as a parole officer in cases of truancy, [93];
• records consulted in study of commitment cases, [118];
• statements from, obtained by parole officer, [110];
• value of evidence from, in parole cases, [113];
• West Side boy and the, [148], [149]
• School Farm: in De Witt Clinton Park, [5]
• Self-Abuse: involved in court cases studied, [90]
• Setebos: judge of children’s court as a, [80]
• Settlement, A: among sources from which boys’ names obtained, [167];
• thefts from, [142]
• Settlement, A Deserted: at Tenth Avenue and Fiftieth Street, [3]
• Settlements: value of evidence to be obtained from, in court cases, [114]
• Sexual Immorality: among West Side boys, [154-156]
• Sexual Perverts: common on West Side, [155]
• Sharkey, Sam: and his mother, [100]
• Smoking: among West Side boys, [145];
• by boys, difficulties of mothers with, [67]
• Snowballing: on West Side, [27]
• Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children: bail seldom demanded at headquarters of, [89];
• boy arrested in evening detained by, [88];
• boy taken to court by way of, [80];
• cases remanded to, pending investigation, [91], [97];
• children under sixteen excluded from operation of first probation law through efforts of, [84];
• detention quarters of, [84];
• joining of forces with school due to, [113];
• official connection with children’s court, [85], [87];
• period of parole of cases under care of, [109];
• probation work of, [85];
• reports of investigator consulted in study of commitment cases, [118];
• uses of detention rooms of, [97], [108];
• visitation by agents of, in parole cases, [93]
• Sons Who Do Not Work: and their mothers, [64]
• Sources: from which names of boys studied were obtained, [167]
• Special Sessions, Court of: children’s court part of, [83]
• Spinner, Jack: bail required in case of, [88]
• Stabbing: arrest of boys for, [17]
• Staley, Patrick: report of investigation in case of, [110]
• Stealing: encouragements to, on West Side, [141], [142]
• Streets: influence exerted upon boys by the, [21], [22];
• the natural playground of the West Side boy, [10], [11];
• uses of, that conflict with boys’ use as a playground, [12]
• Summers, Miss: and George Ruhl, [158]
• Survey, The: article by Homer Folks on Juvenile Probation, cited, [85]
• Suspended Sentence: after conviction, in children’s court, [93], [96];
• following parole, in cases studied, [116]
• Tammany Outing: drunkenness among boys at a, [147]
• Teeth: neglect of, [60]
• Tenement Conditions: on West Side, [56], [57], [58]
• Tenth Avenue: characteristics of, [2], [3]
• Theft: encouragements to, on West Side, [18], [141], [142]
• Thief, Jargon of: common in boys’ gangs, [44]
• Thievery: arrest of boys for, [17].
• See also Burglary; Robbery
• Times, New York: headlines regarding a gang fight quoted from, [50]
• Tracy, Mrs.: and her Michael’s trial, [105]
• Trials at Children’s Court: brevity of, [83], [105].
• See also Hearings
• Tribune, New York: headlines regarding a gang fight quoted from, [49]
• Truancy: among offenses leading to arrest of boys, [16];
• developed into a system, among West Side boys, [148-151];
• difficulties of mothers with, [67];
• procedure in paroled cases of, [93];
• records of boys, classified as delinquent or not delinquent, [173]
• Truant, A Ten-year-old: confession of, [149], [150]
• Truant Schools: commitment by children’s court to, [94], [119]
• Twelfth Avenue: characteristics of, [5]
• Ungovernable Child: boys arrested as, according to court charges, [82]
• United States: parents of boys born in, [7].
• See also American-born
• Vagrancy and Neglect: offenses of, [16]
• Vandalism on West Side: as reported by New York Evening Mail, [144]
• Wages and Occupations: of boys gainfully employed, [175]
• “Wanderlust”: among West Side boys, [151-154]
• Warehouses: on West Side, location of, [3]
• Warrants: use of, in parole cases, [93], [109]
• Waters, Stephen: a “successful” institution case, [127], [128]
• Weapons, Concealed: carrying of, among boys, [45]
• West Side, Middle: a dual neighborhood, [37];
• apathy of, [8];
• characteristics of, explained by history, [6], [7];
• comedy on, [161];
• criminal record of, [8], [13], [19];
• lack of striking features on, [5];
• nationalities predominating on, [7];
• new correlation of recreation activities on, [5]
• Window Breaking: arrest of boys for, [17]
• Window Glass: insurance of, on West Side, [15]
• Work Record: importance of, in parole investigations, [110], [113]
• World, New York: account of gang fighting quoted from, [50]
• World, Evening, New York: story of Johnnie Moran quoted from the, [161]
• Yeggman, Jargon of: common in boys’ gangs, [44]
• Young Men’s Christian Association: Big Brother Movement in, [86]

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