The Adolescent Criminal—A Medico-Sociological Study of 4,000 Male Adolescents

a book of this sort should not only be very welcome, but set an example to Indian psychiatrists to make a report along more or less the same lines as regards crime and criminals in India. The author states that the objects of his enquiry were four : Three were immediate in purpose : it was desired, first, to obtain the fullest information which would enable ample consideration to be given to each case before recommending the lad to the Court of Trial as a suitable subject, on general grounds, for detention in a Borstal institution; second, to ascertain the presence of any mental defectiveness or other mental abnormality which should be reported to the court; third, to utilize the medical data and other factors in the life