The 1911 mental classification, "defective delinquent," was created as a temporary legal-medical category in order to identify a peculiar class of delinquent girls in a specific institutional setting. The defective delinquent's alleged slight mental defect, combined with her appearance of normalcy, rendered her a "dangerous" and "incurable" citizen. At the intersection of institutional history and the history of ideas, this article explores the largely overlooked role of borderline mental classifications of near-normalcy in the medicalization of intelligence and criminality during the first third of the twentieth-century United States. Borderline classifications served as mechanisms of control over women's bodies through the criminalization of their minds, and the advent of psychometric tests legitimated and facilitated the spread of this classification beyond its original and intended context. The borderline case of the defective delinquent girl demonstrates the significance of marginal mental classifications to the policing of bodies through the medicalization of intellect.

“safeguarding the interests of the state” from defective delinquent girls

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The objectives of this research were to study sexual offenses and problems with sexual offenses, by children and male youths through qualitative research. The researcher conducted the in-depth interviews for collecting data. The children and male youths who committed sexual crimes, the multidiscipline groups who worked for 3 years solving child and male youth problems and scholars who have worked for 5 years in their field, were the sample group, made up of 28 people. The results of this research found that the educational level of children and male youths in relation to the sexual offenses was at grade 6, they were mostly from broken families, lacked refinement, and were addicted to drugs. The children and male youths who committed sexual offenses for the first time lacked a conscience but had sexual desires. The reasons for sexual offenses were hormones, emotions, sexual desires, challenges, pornography and a lack of sexual education. The researcher categorized the behavior which caused sexual offenses by children and male youths into 2 categories: 1. the victim consented because they were a couple and 2. The victim resisted so the children and male youths forced them. The victims in both cases were mostly close friends, friends, and girlfriends. The recommendations for future research are to study children and male youth behavior in order to prevent sexual offences in the future. This research focuses on sexual crimes only; thus, other offenses should be studied. Moreover, community environment should be studied in order to prevent crimes due to the fact that if the community has a criminal association, this may cause crime. These further studies should also study couples behavior, especially in high school and at university levels to understand their attitudes, perspective and the way of life of children and youths. Keywords: Sex Offense, Male Juvenile

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The Factors Leading to Sex Offenses of Male Juveniles

Being confronted with the extremely difficult problem of giving adequate treatment to 200 women infected with gonorrhea, out of a population of 350, in an institution equipped for education and industry rather than for purely medical work, it was thought worth while to study the situation in detail and ascertain the facts concerning the following points. The prevalence of the disease among 500 delinquent women who have recently been in the institution and the nature and extent of the infection in each positive case. The length of time the disease had existed without treatment and the time needed for the disappearance of the clinical symptoms. The prevalence of the disease among women serving sentence for different types of offenses. The comparative prevalence of gonorrhea and syphilis among, Alcoholics. Prostitutes. Delinquent women in general. Mentally defective delinquents of the segregable type. While this study shows the prevalence of the disease

The extent and significance of gonorrhea in a reformatory for women: and the consideration of the treatment of venereal disease among delinquents

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