The Hawkspur Experiment

war made it impossible to continue the experiment. The book is an account of the work done in this period and expounds the principles upon which it was carried out. The aim of the Q Camps Committee was the training in a free environment on sympathetic and individual lines of young people who, mainly through environmental causes, presented difficulties in social adjustment, or had been in unfortunate circumstances, whether or not they had been actual law-breakers. The main object of the camp was to encourage the most effective form of discipline, namely self-discipline, on sound scientific and religious principles, and the Camp Chief and the staff were assisted in their purpose by a Selection and Treatment Committee which was mainly composed of medical psychologists. The day to day problems of camp management were considered by the Camp Council which was more a vehicle for the expression of camp opinion than a governing body. Its authority was limited to the domestic affairs of the camp, and was concerned primarily with the personal relations of the members and the day to day conduct of family life. The members shared with the staff the business of running the camp, and the staff accepted the jurisdiction of the Camp Council