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"Yet as different as all the killings appear, the crimes have a single common denominator that makes them doubly tragic: virtually all could have been predicted years before they happened Studies which I headed a decade ago produced guidelines by which violent criminals of the future can be detected with almost absolute certainty in childhood. The "predictability factors," if coupled with an imaginative program of counseling and treatment, could in all probability be preventing much of today's violence. Yet, ironically, these findings are nowhere being used in any anticrime effort. My findings actually got under way at Harvard University years before I became a sociologist. In 19S5, Dr. Richard Clarke Cabot, a professor of social ethics there, recruited 1,000 boys from the slums of Cambridge and Somerville, Mass., for an experiment. The youngsters were either eight or nine years old and represented a racial and ethnic None had yet acquired a police record. In the opinion of teachers, ministers, and others who knew them, half of Cabot's group were boys who cross-sectio- n. Wkii Yoi Ordir If Mall Fm FJiily Wtiklf Tk ed ! Joint Pains L DeWitt's high-power- Floret. Pago 6: Wide World; Geoffrey Gilbert. Page 23: Underwood & Underwood. Family Weekly, June tS, 1968 would eventually "go bad." The other half were considered to be intrinsically "good" boys. For several years Cabot arranged for half of the "good boys" and half of the "bad" to receive regular medical care, tutoring, supervised recreation, and such luxuries as summer camp. The rest continued to exist in an unaltered slum environment. By the late 1950s, it was time for a followup study.. Cabot had died, so I was asked to determine what had become of his boys. Eventually we tracked down 920. Since the 1930s, we found that 40 percent had run afoul of the law. And two things were evident: First, those who had compiled police records had come equally from the "good" and "bad" groups, as had those who had never been arrested. Second, the special attention given to half the boys had had no deterrent effect. As w analyzed their personal histories, however, an interesting pattern emerged. Based on detailed reports, we rated each subject's childhood background on a number of criteria : What was each parent's attitude toward him? Rejection? Erratic affection? Genuine love? How was he disciplined? Physical abuse? Loss of privileges? Were the same standards of behavior consistently enforced or was an infraction punished sometimes and ignored others ? How did his father and mother act toward each other? Our subjects who had committed murder or assault with intent to kill (there were 14 of these) all received the lowest rating possible in each of the categories. In other words, they had been thoroughly rejected by both mother and father; the enforcement of behavior standards had been inconsistent; the usual discipline against them had been physical cruelty; and their parents clearly had despised each otiier and had shown it by physically and verbally abusing each other numerous times. A young man I'll call Eddy Wood typified this unique group. His father, an alcoholic who was himself an ignored Eddy comto beat him in erpletely except ratic displays of discipline. On the rare occasions he was home, the father also beat Eddy's mother in the boy's presence. Eddy's mother admitted she didn't like Eddy as a boy and couldn't help showing it. Eddy compiled a minor police record and openly admitted hating his mother and all women. When he was 20, he picked up a girl and killed her. What is particularly compelling is the fact that the same kind of family background showed up for all the violent criminals even though their individual personalities and their specific crimes differed widely. It is easy to understand why. For one thing, a youngster in such an unhappy home learns to view the world as a threatening place in which he has to defend himself from attack. His first view of human behavior is of violence. Both parents tend to be highly aggressive, and they teach the child, at least implicitly, that one can express violent tendencies without inhibition. As a means of he a facade mildness. of may adopt rock-botto- m |