Word: reformed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of the familiar doctor-patient relationship, Street Corner Research uses an experimenter-subject relationship that "gets information we couldn't possibly obtain by conventional methods." Adolescent subjects are paid for coming in and speaking with members of the experiment; there is no coercion or direct attempt to reform them...
...precise and mathematical one if the predictions of two University criminologists prove accurate. The two will publish today an exhaustive series of "prediction tables" which they believe can indicate delinquents and criminals who will in the future be repeat offenders, and those who will be likely to reform...
Besides potential reformers and repeaters, the system of predictive devices will, according to the Gluecks, point out children who are likely to get into trouble with the police, criminals who are likely to make trouble in prison, criminals who are most likely to commit new crimes if released, and delinquents and criminals who are likely to reform. If the tables continue to predict accurately, prison officials, social workers and clinicians will be able to isolate and help potential criminals before they become serious threats to society...
...crusading spirit manifested itself in many ways. The first House of Correction, reform school, and fire cisterns appeared during his five years in office. The red light district retreated before his reforms, and Quincy even took the revolutionary step of establishing a high school for girls. Quincy's pride kept him from remaining in office longer than five years. In the election of 1828 he failed to obtain an absolute majority on either of the first two ballots, and withdrew in a huff from the race...
...Roman Catholic; 45-264 a Protestant; 97-211 a reform Jew; 171-137 an Orthodox Jew; 71-236 an atheist or agnostic...