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Problem children

Here are entered works on children with behavior difficulties due to emotional instability or social environment.

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• Children

• Behavior disorders in children

• Problem children -- Education
• Problem children -- United States

• Difficult children
• Maladjusted children

• Helping Traumatized Children Learn: Supportive School Environments for Children Traumatized by Family Violence (Boston: Massachusetts Advocates for Children, c2005), by Susan F. Cole, Jessica Greenwald O'Brien, M. Geron Gadd, Joel Ristuccia, D. Luray Wallace, and Michael Gregory (PDF at traumasensitiveschools.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency: An Experiment (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1972), by Walter C. Reckless and Simon Dinitz (PDF at Ohio State)
• Family Environment and Delinquency (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, c1962), by Sheldon Glueck and Eleanor T. Glueck, contrib. by Rose W. Kneznek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Juvenile Delinquency Proneness: A Study of the Kvaraceus Scale (Washington: Public Affairs Press, c1956), by Joseph K. Balogh and Charles J. Rumage (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Child, the Clinic and the Court (New York: New Republic, Inc., 1927), contrib. by Jane Addams, A. L. Jacoby, Miriam Van Waters, Marion E. Kenworthy, William Healy, Helen T. Wooley, Herman M. Adler, Augusta F. Bronner, Smiley Blanton, Thomas D. Eliot, Nils Anderson, Elizabeth L. Woods, Charles Manning Child, C. Judson Herrick, Franz Boas, Ernest R. Groves, Joel D. Hunter, Henry S. Hulbert, Frederick Pickering Cabot, Charles W. Hoffman, Grace Abbott, Ben B. Lindsey, Julia Clifford Lathrop, Louise de Koven Bowen, Julian W. Mack, T. D. Hurley, and George W. Kirchwey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Revolt of Modern Youth (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925), by Ben B. Lindsey and Wainwright Evans
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Coming Wave of Violence in California (1996), by Allan F. Abrahamse (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• How Youthful Offenders Perceive Gun Violence, by Julie H. Goldberg and William Schwabe (PDF at rand.org)

• Last One Over the Wall: The Massachusetts Experiment in Closing Reform Schools (2nd edition; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Jerome G. Miller (PDF at Ohio State)

• Children in Custody: Anglo-Russian Perspectives (ca. 2008), by Mary McAuley (HTML at Bloomsbury Academic (registration optional))

• Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Departmental Committee on Habitual Offenders, Vagrants, Beggars, Inebriates, and Juvenile Delinquents, With Appendix and Index (does not include separate Report volume; Edinburgh: Printed for HMSO by Neill and Co., 1895), by Great Britain Departmental Committee on Habitual Offenders, Vagrants, Beggars, Inebriates, and Juvenile Deliquents, contrib. by Charles Cameron (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the City Council Committee on Crime of the City of Chicago (1915), by Chicago City Council Committee on Crime (PDF files at Northwestern)

• Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Crime: Certain Associations of Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Crime in Gary, Ind., With Special Reference to the Immigrant Population (Indiana University Studies #49; 1921), by Edna Hatfield Edmondson (page images at HathiTrust)

• All the Way Down: The Violent Underworld of Street Gangs (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962), by Vincent Riccio and Bill Slocum (page images at HathiTrust)
• House of Refuge: Origins of Juvenile Reform in New York State, 1815-1857 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, c1969), by Robert S. Pickett (Epub with commentary at Syracuse)

• The Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency: An Experiment (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1972), by Walter C. Reckless and Simon Dinitz (PDF at Ohio State)

• Family Life, Delinquency, and Crime, A Policymaker's Guide: Research Summary (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 1994), by Kevin N. Wright and Karen E. Wright (page images at HathiTrust)

• Into the Abyss: A Personal Journey Into the World of Street Gangs, by Michael K. Carlie (HTML at Missouri State)

• Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General (2001), by United States Public Health Service (HTML at surgeongeneral.gov)

• Responding to Gangs: Evaluation and Research (2002), ed. by Winifred L. Reed and Scott H. Decker (PDF and text at ojp.gov)
• Diverting Children from a Life of Crime: Measuring Costs and Benefits, by Peter W. Greenwood, Karyn E. Model, C. Peter Rydell, and James Chiesa (PDF files at rand.org)

• Current Projects in the Prevention, Control, and Treatment of Crime and Delinquency (full serial archives)

• Responding to Gangs: Evaluation and Research (2002), ed. by Winifred L. Reed and Scott H. Decker (PDF and text at ojp.gov)

• Children in Custody: Anglo-Russian Perspectives (ca. 2008), by Mary McAuley (HTML at Bloomsbury Academic (registration optional))

• Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice (New York and London: New York University Press, c2014), ed. by Franklin E. Zimring and David Spinoza Tanenhaus (PDF and HTML with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency (interim report of the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency; 1955), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
  • HTML at thecomicbooks.com
  • with related subcommittee reports; page images at HathiTrust
• Juvenile Delinquency (Comic Books): Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-Third Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to S. 190 (Washington: GPO, 1954), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Child in America: Behavior Problems and Programs (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1928), by William Isaac Thomas and Dorothy Swaine Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Into the Abyss: A Personal Journey Into the World of Street Gangs, by Michael K. Carlie (HTML at Missouri State)

• Cops and Kids: Policing Juvenile Delinquency in Urban America, 1890-1940 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c2005), by David B. Wolcott (PDF with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Start 'Em Young: Recruitment of Kids to the Gun Culture (some illustrations omitted; 1999), by Violence Policy Center (illustrated HTML at vpc.org)

• The American Child (1913), by Elizabeth McCracken (Gutenberg text)
• The American Child (Boston and New York: Houghton Miffin Co., 1913), by Elizabeth McCracken, illust. by Alice Austin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic, by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith (Gutenberg text)
• Little Folks of Many Lands (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1904), by Lulu Maude Chance
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Children and Gardens (London: Offices of "Country life", Ltd.; New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1908), by Gertrude Jekyll
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Your Child Today and Tomorrow (second edition, 1920), by Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg (Gutenberg text)
• The Day Before Yesterday (New York: M. Kennerley, 1913), by Richard Middleton
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Our Little Alaskan Cousin, by Mary F. Nixon-Roulet (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Gerard, Our Little Belgian Cousin (Boston: The Page Company, 1911), by Blanche McManus (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)

• Dare to be Creative! A Lecture Presented at the Library of Congress, November 16, 1983 (Washington: Library of Congress, 1984), by Madeleine L'Engle, contrib. by John Young Cole and Sybille A. Jagusch (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to Provide Good Reading for Children (Toronto: Bryant Press, ca. 1895), by Agnes Campbell Farquharson Schultz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Imagination and Children's Reading (Northampton, MA: Hampshire Bookshop, 1921), by Grace Hazard Conkling
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• American Potpourri: Multi-Ethnic Books for Children and Young Adults; A Bibliography Based on the Acquisitions of the Educational Materials Center (Washington: Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, 1977), by Mary DeWitt Billings, Janet Shenk, and Rita D. McCain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected Books for Young Children; Selected Pictures for Young Children (second edition; New York: Educational Playthings, c1934), by Alice Dalgliesh and Rita Scherman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's Booklist, by Theosophical Society Children's Committee (HTML at theosophy-nw.org)
• A Pleasing Toy for Children (Concord, NH: Rufus Merrill, 1843)
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Child and His Picture Book: A Discussion of the Preferences of the Nursery Child (Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1933), by Larry Freeman and Ruth S. Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Foxy Grandpa and His Boys: Fun on the Farm (Chicago: M. A. Donohue, c1908), illust. by Bunny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Foxy Grandpa Playing Ball (Chicago: M. A. Donohue, ca. 1908), illust. by Bunny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Foxy Grandpa Rides the Goat (Chicago: M. A. Donohue, c1908), illust. by Bunny (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.