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Refreshing in its simplicity and in its contrast with senatorial committees is the intelligent method with which Professor Glueck of the Harvard Law School approaches the question. In an exhaustive analysis of 500 criminal careers, which has recently been published in book form, his attitude is more that of the psychiatrist than of the investigator of the chamber-room. Using the scientific method of induction he has sifted a huge mass of material into eight specific conclusions, all of them at variance with the accepted code of procedure in penal institutions...
...alarm with which sane citizens regard the breaking down of even theoretical vestiges of intelligent punishment and permanent reform in American prisons tells the story. Professor Glueck points the moral. A judicious application of his theories to the faltering reformatory system would not be too far amiss...
...book which may have revolutionary consequences is the volume entitled "500 Criminal Careers", by Sheldon Glueck, assistant professor and instructor in the Law School, and his wife. This book has recently been published by A. A. Knopf of New York City...
...prisoner though departing from the stern unswerving rigors of the usual courts of justice, seems in line with proper social ethics; whereas the last important item, the establishment of a federal committee to assist ex-convicts in social re-adjustment, judging from the recent criminal survey of Dr. Glueck, is a really national necessity in this country. Whether these interesting elements will prove to be a substantial legal code is open to conjecture. At least it shows a serious effort on the part of a nation hitherto wavering in legal policies to come to grips with a problem which...
...reexamination of our legal system, Harvard opens this fall the work of the new Institute of Criminal Law, whose Director is Professor Francis Bowes Sayre of the Harvard Law School. To assist Professor Sayre, Professor Sam Bass Warner comes to Harvard from the University of Syracuse and Mr. Sheldon Glueck, author of "Mental Disorders and the Criminal Law", becomes Assistant Professor of Criminology and assumes a position on the staff of the new Institute. Assistant Professor John Joseph Burns of the Harvard Law School will collaborate with Professor Sayre in the Institute...