Word: penalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entitled "The Child Offender in the Federal System of Justice." For President Hoover, famed for his warm heart toward children, the answers made sorrowful reading. The Commission found that the U. S. is far behind the States in dealing with juvenile delinquency. Girls and boys caught in the Federal penal system are not reformed: they are herded with veteran criminals, flogged, thrown into solitary confinement, underfed, tortured in body & mind...
...Waters. No novice, Dr. Van Waters has long served as referee of the Los Angeles County Juvenile Court, formerly headed the National Conference of Social Work, is now an expert consultant to the Harvard Law School Crime Survey. She spent months prying into the dark corners of the Federal penal system as it applied to children. Her realistic findings comprised 152 pages of the Commission's 157-page report. What she told the Commission and what the Commission told the President in cluded the following...
...York, N. Y., June 2--The decision of Harvard University to inaugurate next fall a training course for prison wardens, the executive heads of penal and similar institutions, seems likely to meet with the hearty approval of penologists. Two of the most active men in the field in the vicinity of New York, Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing and Commissioner of Corrections Richard C. Patterson, Jr. of New York City, today were enthusiastic over the possibilities of such a course, according to the New York Evening Post...
...course overlook the fact that a number of penal officials without the benefits of a college and graduate education have done outstanding work in the field. The names of Commissioner Herbert C. Parsons of the Massachusetts Board of Probation and Warden Lawes of Sing-Sing readily occur to one in that connection. But for the most part prison wardens, a large number of whom have worked up from the position of prison guard, have less than a high school education...
...project of the Institute of Criminal Law of Harvard University printed elsewhere in the CRIMSON is an attempt to remedy an age old evil by a new method. The particular trouble in this case is the disappointingly and even dangerously low grade of the public service officials who administer penal and correctional institutions, departments of probation, parole boards and other public and private agencies dealing with delinquency and criminality. The significance of this lies in the aim to help the public agencies which every one thinks of in this connection. The recent scandal in the New York police force...