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The Gluecks also studied family histories to indicate relation of heredity to criminal behavior. This study was included into their comparison of delinquent and non delinquent boys. What they found in their study is that more delinquent boys than non delinquent boys came from families who had a history of crime and that the criminality of the father was the best predictor that the child would also enter criminal behavior (Reid).

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