Except for the excellence of their material and their focus on criminal behaviour there is little common ground between these two books. The former describes an original research into the prediction of success and failure among Borstal boys, carried out jointly by a criminologist and a statistician of distinction in their respective fields. The latter consists of a series of lectures given unde...

BACKGROUND Juvenile delinquency has become a significant global problem. Conduct disorder (CD), among other psychiatric disorders, has assumed prominence in its association with juvenile offending as well as criminality in adulthood. Despite this knowledge, little attention is given to this problem especially as it affects adjudicated adolescent offenders in developing countries. AIM To exami...

As a result of personal experience on the staffs of Holloway Prison and of the Aylesbury Borstal Institution, the writer of this book can speak with some authority on the methods of treating women prisoners and delinquent girls as she found them to exist; from the knowledge gained by training as a Psychiatric Social Worker she has formed very definite convictions as to the much better methods w...

collaboration with Percy Stocks and H. T. P. * j With Foreword by Sir Alexander Maxwell. JChurchill. 1942. Pp. 327. 45s. jj, This book is the result of an investigation into characteristics of 4,000 lads between 16 and 20 ye^f age, received at the Boys' Prison at Wormwood Sc^ between 1930 and 1937, before entering one of Borstal Institutions. In some ways it may be reg^T, as a continuation of D...

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 ea...

Abstract During the First World War Britain’s criminals were mobilized in much same way as rest of society. Courts allowed defendants to avoid prison if they enlisted, while borstal boys, and later adult prisoners, also granted early release. Although enlistment offered a chance for rehabilitation, desirable due their violent nature, enlisting them reduced cost imprisonment at time straitened e...