However, this is only half the job. The remaining problem of course is "how to detect early enough the danger signals of persistent maladapted behavior in order to cope with it before it becomes habitual." The Gluecks believe that the schools are the best place to attack this problem.

The reason is that the symptoms of maladaptive behavior first crop up-in the school. Almost all the delinquents studied indulged in some misconduct at school, ranging from defiance, stubborness, and lying to stealing and sexual misconduct. The Gluecks suggest that the school could function as the "litmus paper of personality and character maladaption, reflecting early in the child's growth the acid test of his failure in his first attempts to cope with the problems of life."

Three Tables

In accordance with this theory the Gluecks have set up three "prognostie tables" derived from, 1) the data on family background, 2) the Rorachach test, and 3) the paychiatric interviews. Each one of these is made up of the five most important factors in that area, on which the boys are rated. These tables have already been tested out and have preved to be very reliable.

The Glueck plan would be administered

somewhat as follows. Shortly after the child enters elementary school the investigation in terms of these three tables would be initiated. A skilled social worker would investigate the child's home, and his realtions with his parents. A psychologist would administer the Rorschach test, and a psychiatrist would carefully interview the child. Each would score him seperately and then compare opinions and add up the ratings. A bad score on one table would be nothing to be alarmed about, but if the child scores badly on all three then he will need considerable help from social worker, psychologist, and psychiatrist in order to provent him from becoming seriously delinquent.

The thing which is truly extraordinary about this projects is that educational authorities have already recognised the vital importance of the problem and the need for a preventive plan, and are more than interested in testing it out. If they do it will "enable communitties to begin on a program of reorientation of preventive efforts with the aim of more pointed and relevant attacks on (the) crucial factors" involved in the casuation of the criminal