RT Article
T1 Negligent criminology: Alfred Adler’s influence on Bernard, Sheldon, and Eleanor Glueck
JF European journal of criminology
VO 18
IS 5
SP 660
OP 677
A1 Shon, Phillip
A2 Mansager, Erik
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/177795696X
AB We suggest that Bernard, Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck routinely applied Alfred Adler’s general psychological concepts to specific instances of criminological theory without proper attribution. We offer several levels of support: (1) we contrast the Freudian terminology within Bernard Glueck’s early writings and Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck’s influential book Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency (1950) with the Adlerian constructs of their respective criminological works; (2) we describe the enduring similarity between life-course theory of crime and Adler’s original theory; and (3) we speculate as to how this apparent but non-attributed Adlerian influence occurred. Overall, the article exposes a circumstantial evidence of neglect in the criminology literature: Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck’s silence on Adler’s contribution and their own ostracization by mainstream criminology. We conclude that acknowledgment of the Gluecks’ contribution and their debt to Adler could continue to reinvigorate criminology today.
K1 Adler, Alfred : 1870-1937
K1 Glueck, Bernard : 1883-
K1 Classical Adlerian psychology
K1 Individual Psychology
K1 Life-course criminology
K1 Psychological theory of crime
DO 10.1177/1477370819874455