Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insisting, as Professor Glueck has done, that the work of the prison official should be dignified, recognized as one requiring considerable technical training, and amply compensated, the Law School has taken a significant step. The superintending of a large prison demands, as an initial requirement, executive ability; in addition the care of criminal involves problems of measurement of mental capacity, anthropological knowledge, and psychological diagnosis. Citizens who would not entrust themselves to the care of an incompetent psychiatrist can not expect that the criminal classes, all in need of mental care to a greater or lesser degree, will be much...
...offering a curriculum for correctional administrators the Harvard Institute of Criminal Law has taken the first step in this line in the country's history; the move is significant as the first attempt to deal with a basic problem of the criminal--what to do with the offender when he's caught and convicted--by professionalizing the work of correctional administrators," Sheldon Glueck, assistant professor of Criminology stated in an interview yesterday...
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...
...fact that a number of intelligent men inadequately trained have done good work in the field of public health, did not make it any less necessary that that service be professionalized, a step that has been taken only recently. The situation is the same with regard to prison work. The International Prison Congress at Prague last year, recognizing this, resolved that the higher officials in the correctional field should possess an advanced education, and that special schools and classes should be established for the education of the superintending officials...
...method of offering such a course as this has never been tried before, it is impossible to predict the outcome, but the importance of the service concerned leads one to expect success. At any rate there can be no doubt about the worth of this project as a first step in the right direction...