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...juvenile delinquent be "cured" simply by hard work and discipline? Many social workers think not. The average delinquent, they argue, needs psychiatric care as well. Recently, Britain's penal authorities have been operating on the opposite theory: at "detention centers" at Kidlington, near Oxford, and Goudhurst in Kent, they have been putting delinquents through a rugged "basic training" course with surprising success. Last week, despite scattered criticism, the Prison Commission went ahead with plans to establish two new detention centers...
...some penal experts, the shock centers' spit-and-polish routine seems merely brutalizing. Says W. J. Bray, chief proba tion officer for Kent: "I say it is destructive . . . Why don't they pay more attention to boys' minds?" The London Daily Herald got into the fight by arguing that the shock centers leave their graduates more embittered than before...
Student. In Altadena, Calif., arrested after 200 burglaries, a 14-year-old boy told police he had boned up on the lives of famous criminals, studied the California Penal Code, was planning at the time he was caught to practice his technique on two small safes he had spotted in city hall...
...concerning the American Law Institute's recommendation that sodomy as well as adultery be removed from the list of crimes against the peace and dignity of the state. This is certainly a step in the right direction toward a much needed revision of most of the states' penal codes...
...penal codes in the United States are probably the most flagrant infringements of personal liberties that exist, and it is fine to see that we have thinking jurists who recommend that our churches, schools and parental influences should guide our morals...