Identifier: educationpersona00wils (find matches)
Title: Education, personality & crime ; a practical treatise built up on scientific details, dealing with difficult social problems
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Wilson, Albert, 1854-1928
Subjects: Crime Personality Education and crime Social problems Crime Personality
Publisher: London, Greening & Co., ltd.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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he thinks,should never regain their liberty, being incurable, althoughfrom observation, I should regard no case as hopeless untilthe Salvation Army methods have failed. Under the Borstal System much improvement occurs amongthe class of juvenile offenders. The Borstal Committee rescueor cure about 50 per cent, to 60 per cent, of these young con-victs. This makes the work appear in glowing colours, butwithout detracting from their noble efforts, I suggest that atleast one-haK of these lads should never have seen the insideof a convict prison.^ When poor boys allow their exuberantspirits to run riot they should have a little of the same for- ^ Quite recently, 1906, two very decent lads were sent to one ofour largest prisons in London for playing football on a highway. About the years 1890-2 two boys, eleven and twelve years of age,were sent as convicts to Dartmoor. They were serving five years forincendiarism. The governor, Colonel Plummer, got them removedto a more suitable institution.
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From left to right. Ages Heights 18^ 5ft. ; -7in. i7i 5ft. lin. ; -yin 12.1 4ft. iiin. ; +2in 22 5ft. ; -Sin. 16 5ft; -4in. Facing page 199. WeightsSst. ; -ist. i2lb.yst. 31b. ; — 2st. 41b.6st. ; —normal.Sst. 61b. ; -2st.6st. ylb. ; —2st. THE CRIMINAL 199 bearance as is shown to gentlemens sons. It must byforce of circumstances be differently applied, for in the firstplace parental control must be insisted upon to the extent ofpunishing those parents who fail in their responsibilities. The second stage for continued petty boyish offences, or pun^g^^even small crimes, should be corporal punishment, prompt mentand sure, without confinement. The navy and army shouldoffer special advS-ntages to lads who are forced to the border-line of crime, for they improve rapidly and straighten outunder discipline, and, I am told, make brave soldiers. For third convictions an indetermininate sentence to areformatory or farm colony should be resorted to on theBorstal system, the label prison bein

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