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...devoted primarily to research in the fields of Criminal Law, Procedure, Crime, Causation and Crime Treatment, is embarking on a new project, the first of its kind to be undertaken by any Law School. There is a pressing need nowadays for professionalization of the work of those who administer penal and correctional institutions, departments of probation, parole boards and other public and private agencies dealing with delinquency and criminality. Recognizing this fact the Law School Institute has developed an experimental project for a Curriculum for Correctional Administrators, designed to prepare men of character and special capacity for positions of leadership...
...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...
...Justice at Bow Street Police Court. "I plead not guilty," cried Swindler Owen, looking Chief Magistrate Sir Chartres Biron in the eye. "I have a perfect answer to these outrageous charges!" He gave the answer last week in Old Bailey, or rather there was no answer. Sentence: four years penal servitude. Next case? "Jake the Barber." About to break last week was a swindle story which U. S. Department of Justice operatives in Chicago and Philadelphia said will reveal a "monster ring of British swindlers" led by Chicago's dapper John ("Jake the Barber") Factor. According to the Secret...
...libel case arose out of the introduction in 1927 of a legislative bill to revoke the Society's charter. One of the provisions in New York's penal laws allows the Society to collect 50% of the fines imposed in "vice" cases discovered by it. The Graphic, agitating for abolition of the Society, stated what has been charged by many another foe of Censor Sumner: that the Society's operatives functioned as agents provocateurs, habitually duped reluctant booksellers and printers into selling contraband books or erotic pictures, and then arrested them. The Society sued. Publisher Macfadden engaged...
...plan for a carefully worked out system of education for criminals has been proposed by A. H. MacCormick, assistant director of the United States Bureau of Prisons. The program is the result of a detailed study of penal conditions throughout the country which testified that immediate and drastic changes are necessary if American penal institutions are to fulfill their purpose effectively...