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Richard Louis Dugdale

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527: 64:. He became interested in social science but worked as a merchant and a manufacturer, hoping in the future to be able to devote himself full-time to his interest in sociology studies and social reform. Dugdale was described as a shy and humble man, who believed that good government was dependent on an educated, informed electorate. He was involved with several societies including The Society for Political Education, the New York Social Science Society, the New York Association for the Advancement of Science and the Arts, the New York Sociology Club, and the Civil Service Reform Association. 522: 508: 119:, a follow-up study in 1916. Estabrook's eugenic reanalysis strongly emphasized heredity, and he reversed Dugdale's arguments about the environment, proposing controls on reproduction and other eugenics solutions, since he claimed no amount of environmental changes could alter their genetic inheritance towards criminality. Scholars have noted that Estabrook's analysis of the family "won the day". 107:
study were the need for penal reform, improved public health and early childhood education and care, all indications that he supported an environmentalist position. Dugdale also noted that the Jukes were a composite of 42 families and not a single group: only 540 of his 709 subjects appeared to be related by blood, and that his conclusions were tentative and inconclusive.
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or other controls on reproduction. Instead, he believed that human behavior was influenced by both heredity and environment. He claimed that physiological disorders were the main cause of social problems, and that "training" could modify disposition and behavior. The conclusions he drew from his
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in 1877. Dugdale pioneered the use of science and scientific methods for the improvement of society, believing that studies that used objective methods would lead to the betterment of public policy and laws. His work marked a move away from religious-based explanations of social problems, and was
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Dugdale never married, and his health was fragile throughout his life. He suffered a breakdown in his late thirties and died of congenital heart disease in New York City on 23 July 1883 in his early forties.
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in 1858 in an effort to improve his health. The family returned to New York in 1860, and the following year his father died. Dugdale later worked in business as a
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Dugdale became a member of the executive committee of the Prison Association of New York in 1868 and in 1874 was delegated to inspect thirteen county jails in
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Paul, Diane (1995), "Controlling Human Heredity: 1865 to the Present, p.49, quoted in "Teaching Eugenics to Children:Heredity and Reform in Jean Webster's
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Carlson, Elof Axel (Aug 1980), "R. L. Dugdale and the Jukes Family: A Historical Injustice Corrected",
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Keely, Karen (Sep 2004), "Teaching Eugenics to Children:Heredity and Reform in Jean Webster's
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movement. Others note that Dugdale was not a eugenicist and never suggested
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and began working for a sculptor at the age of 14. Dugdale suffered from a
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The Triumph of Evolution: Heredity Environment Controversy, 1900-1941
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The work of a social teacher: being a memorial of Richard L. Dugdale
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Dugdale's papers are housed in the Special Collections of the
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The Jukes: A Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease and Heredity
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The Jukes: A Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease and Heredity
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lauded due to its use of fieldwork to answer questions of
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The Jukes in 1915 (Historical note)



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