ABSTRACT
From Burgess, E.W. (1916). Juvenile delinquency in a small city. Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, 6, 724-728.
Numerous studies have been made of juvenile delinquency and dependency in the cities. The small city and the town have been overlooked. Yet the problems of child development are present in the smaller community, and are even more difficult of solution, because of the survival of the traditional point of view, and because of the absence of the trained social worker. The difficulty is increased rather than diminished by the fact that institutions, such as the juvenile court, which were developed to meet city needs, are transferred to the country unmodified with reference to a widely different situation.
