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Professor Glueck, who in the absence next year of Professor F. B. Sayre, will be acting director of the Institute of Criminal Law, in commenting on the curriculum which was announced yesterday said, "It is high time some institution of learning took this step. We have highly trained and well-paid judges and lawyers. But in the past we have tended to turn the sentenced offender over to a jail whose warden is supposed to see rather that the 'debt to society is paid' than that the offender is corrected...
...remarkable feature of the project," Professor Glueck added, "is that it is being undertaken by a Law School Institute, for the legal profession is proverbially hide-bound, and thought of as unwilling to incorporate the findings of workers in the social sciences...
...hope," Professor Glueck stated, "that when it becomes known that Harvard is preparing a body of specially trained men for correctional work, community leaders will begin to demand that such men be preferred when appointments are made. It is not systems, or scientifically built prisons that we need; the crying need is for scientifically trained administrators. Criminals cannot be handled as a group, they are individuals, and must be treated by trained technicians...
Questioned as to the widespread concern over crime in this country, Professor Glueck emphasized the experimental nature of the new curriculum. "I should like to stress," he said, "that no rash promises to 'discover the cause of crime' are being made. The Institute of Criminal Laws known that the crime problem is one of the most complex of all social problems and that it is absurd to expect 'immediate results' from any effort in this field. The public have too long been led to false expectations, and too many patent medicines have been peddled in this field...
...disclosing the courses which will be offered next September, Professor Glueck said. "The project, of course is experimental: we must experiment with the content of the curriculum the type of men selected, and with the positions in which they are placed. We shall therefore keep the applicants down to a small number of specially qualified...