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Sadoff Catalog page 17. Chapters on an extensive critical review of the London Times' coverage of prisons; the fictions of Dickens upon solitary confinement; remarks on the Boston Discipline Society's reports; prison enormities (with sections on Newgate, Bridewell, the Middlesex County House of Correction, the evils of classification, and juvenile offenders); Millbank Penitentiary; Model Prison; continental prison reform.
A third and last printing appeared in 1927.
Contains "Case of Destitution of Moral Feelings, With Singular Physical Peculiarities" by Eliza W. Farnham, Matron of the Mount Pleasant State Prison, Sing Sing, N.Y." which describes attempts to restrain an 18 year old black girl convicted of arson and sentenced to a 2½ year prison term; Brigham's "Madness; or the Maniac's Hall; a Poem in Seven Cantos"; Aubanel's "Medico-Legal Remaks upon a Case of Homicidal Insanity"; "Joan of Arc, from Calmeil" translated by M. M. Bagg of Utica; John Connolly's "Imbecility of Mind Supervening in Young People" [from the London Lancet]; "Case of Intermittent Mental Disorder"; "Case of Mental Excitement allayed by Music"; "The History of Hypochondriacs" [from Crighton's Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Mental Derangement; "Fanatical Insanity" [from Arnold's Observations on Insanity].
Contains Earl Bond & E. Abbott's "A Comparison of Personal Characteristics in Dementia Praecox and Manic-Depressive Psychosis"; Bernard Glueck's "A Contribution to the Study of Psychogenesis in the Psychoses"; Francis Barnes' "Chemistry of Nervous and Mental Diseases"; W. Richardson's "The 'Imprisonment Psychosis' with Report of Cases"; C. Macfie Campbell's "On Certain Problems Presented by Cases of General Paralysis with Focal Symptoms"; Eyman & O'Brien's "A Study of Certain Serum Reactions in the Blood Serum of General Paralytics and its Familial Aspects".
Chapters on the social world of the child and the role of the family.
The major journal source for material on sociopathic & psychopathic criminality. Publication ceased with volume 5 #1, which is a memorial issue commemorating Karpman's death.
Banay was consultant on prisons to the Justice Department, before which he had been chief psychiatrist at Sing Sing.
Barnes's first book, also published as his Columbia University doctoral dissertation. Volume I (not present) contains the text of the Commission's report to the governor.
Bianchi's last book with chapters on eugenics, alcoholism, mental hygiene, the penal system. Written for an Italian audience and very much pro-eugenic. Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases at the Royal University of Naples, Bianchi was the most prominent early 20th century Italian neuropsychiatrist. His Textbook of psychiatry, of which there were three Italian editions, was, through its English translation influential outside Italy.
Vivid description of prison life by an erudite, inept burglar who spent much of his adult life in prison.
A social Darwinist, Boies was a member of the Board of Public Charities and of the Committee on Lunacy of the State of Pennsylvania. Chapters on the criminal insane & insane convicts; drunkards & prostitutes; the instinctive & habitual criminal; juvenile & first offenders; prison labor; police prevention: prohibition of the marriage of the unfit; presumptive criminals; penological ethics.
Contains reports on British and Continental prisons, the Bertillon system, and the discharged convict in Europe.
Grinstein 4409.
Sadoff Catalog page 31, Sweet & Maxwell Legal Bibliography I: 438. Classic account of crime and its prevention in London with chapters on gaming, prostitution, poverty, felons shipped to New South Wales, and the criminal justice system. Translated into German the same year as this edition. A native Scot, Colquhoun moved to London in 1789, where he was appointed justice and where, prior to the publication of this book in 1795, he was primarily concerned with the welfare of the poor.
13 papers including Henderson's "Psychopathic Constitution and Criminal Behaviour"; MacCalman's "Functional Nervous Disorders after Injury"; East's "Physical Factors and Criminal Behaviour" Glover's "The Diagnosis and Treatment of Delinquency".
Debs's last book and a passionate plea for prison reform.
Howard pioneered prison and asylum reform in 18th century England.
Ordained a minister in 1822 and America's first nationaly important prison reformer, Dwight founded in 1825 the Prison Discipline Society after becoming aware of abuses in the prison system from distributing bibles in prisons in various states. He was secretary and practical manager of the Society until his death and during his regime published 29 annual reports that contained a vast amount of information unobtainable elsewhere and that were much used by politicians and prison officials throughout the country.
Sadoff Collection, p. 35. Eldridge was superintendent and Watts Head of the Detective Bureau of the Boston Police.
Turner The Walter Scott Publishing Company: A Bibliography #353a.
Published simultaneously in Canada.
Contains T. Asuni et al "Family"; M. Al-Hamid et al. "Religion"; J. Pecar "Politics"; Asuni & E. Bouasla "School"; Pecar & S. Scheerer "Labour"; Y. Fang "PUblic Security Organization"; T. Moriyama & A. Salama "Citizen Associations and the Volunteer Probation Officer"; Pecar "Conciliation"; Scheerer & M. Brunetti "Therapeutic Communities."
Fitzgerald was professor of law in the University of Leeds.
A collection of 22 papers, all but three previously published. Divided into three sections: General (8 papers); Classification (6 papers); Psychoanalytic (8 papers).
PMM 376; Norman Catalog #867.
The first book on finger prints, which led to their universal adoption by police forces throughout the world as the standard means of identification. Also contains substantial chapters on heredity and on race.
Gillin was Professor of Sociology in the University of Pennsylvania.
Based on eight lectures delivered to a lay audience at the Lowell Institute in 1935. Glueck was professor of criminology at Harvard.
Sadoff Collection page 120.
Novel by a psychiatrist about his treatment of a criminal about to be sentenced.
Written from a Freudian standpoint.
Sadoff Catalog page 122.
One of H. M. Inspectors of Prisons, Griffiths had previously been Deputy-Governor of Millbank Memorial prison.
Brittain p. 80. Expansion of his 1870 essay "Society versus Insanity" published in the September 1870 issue of Putnam's Magazine. Reviews in extensu a number of foreign brutal murders where the insanity defense was invoked, addressing issues of responsibility, self-control, punishability.
A detailed discussion of the origin and history of the Borstal system that compared its results with American reformatory methods.
OCLC records only Minnesota Historical Soc. & Sam Houston State Univ. as having the second edition (though I know that the College of Physicians in Philadelphia also has a copy). Pages 125-147 contain [Thomas] Cole[man] Younger's account of the Northfield, Minnesota bank robbery.
The first book on the subject.
Volume One reports in extenso 5 psychopathic cases of predation.
Reports verbatim 5 cases relating to sex & drug offenses: VI: The Case of Walter Mason (Theft of the United States Mail; Drug Addiction); VII: The Case of Atkinson Cleary (Violation of the Mann Act); VIII: The Case of Kenneth Elton (Rape); IX: The Case of Jerry Biggs (Mail Train Robbery).
An immensely popular book that went into many printings.
A study of mass murderers from 1812 on.
Facsimile reprint of the 1911 Little Brown first edition in English. Originally issued in the Modern Criminal Science Series.
Doctoral thesis in criminal justice submitted to the City University of New York. Lynch was at the time Chief of the Parole Revocation Unit at the NY State Division of Parole.
Bibliographs 190 items, each with extensive annotation.
Sadoff Collection page 140.
Malikin was professor of rehabilitation education at NYU.
Narcotics and Narcotics Addictionwas a standard book in the field and saw four editions from 1954 to 1971. It is distinguished from the many period books on the subject by its extensive glossary of words and phrases used by addicts and in the illegal drugs trade (60 pages in this third edittion).Philologist and pioneer sociolinguist who did pioneer work in the argot of the underworld, Maurer was for decades Professor of English and the Humanities at the University of Louisville. In his The Big Con (Bobbs-Merrill, 1940) "he describes in intriguing detail the operation of the big con in various settings" [Patterson Smith, "The Literature of Frauds and Swindles", AB, 1997, 99:17, p.1368]. The screenplay of The Sting so closely borrowed from Maurer's book that he sued for $10,000,000 for copyright infringement. The suit was settled out of court.
The author was a psychiatrist who worked chiefly with conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War imprisoned at Lompoc prison near Santa Barbara. The book recounts his experiences there, focusing on the stories of six inmates.
2nd conference has sessions on the institutional care of destitute adults; care & relief of needy families in their own homes; politics in penal & charitable institutions; relief of the sick poor; defective, dependent, delinquent & neglected children; treatment of the criminal; the mentally defective; improved housing. 6th conference: care & relief of needy familie in their homes; the sick & mentally defective; dependent, neglected & delinquent children; treatment of the criminal; social betterment; enforcement of law & elimination of politics in charitable & correctional work. 8th conference: report on the study & care of the defectives, chaired by Adolf Meyer; report on the care of the sick, chaired by Edward B. Angell; industrial accidents, chaired by F. H. McLean; report on the care of children; report on the study of the criminal; report on vagrancy & homelessness. 9th conference: sessions on public health; the standard of living; the care & relief of the poor in the their homes; the conditions & regulations of labor; the care of children; state institutions, the criminal.
Parsons was director of the Portland School of Social Work and professor of applied sociology at the University of Oregon.
The last revised edition of a manual for the in-service training course offered for public employees in Pennsylvania in the correctional and penal fields.
Sadoff Collection page 155.
First published in the U.S. in 1945 by Prentice-Hall.
Published in an edition of 1100 copies.
STC 20945; DNB XVI: 933; Lowndes Vol IV, p. 2078 (1869 edition). Little is known about Reynolds, said by the DNB to be a native of Exeter who traveled in France on business. Book I first appeared in 1621, with Books II & III appearing in 1621 and 1622. All six were first published together in 1635, with the edition we have apparently being the second complete edition. It was republished a number of times through the early 18th century with Pordage's 1679 edition being especially noteworthy as adding a section on the revenge of adultery. All the early editions are rare.
OCLC records no copies of the English translation, 8 of the original Spanish: Yale & Yale Law, LC, Indiana, Harvard Law, UNC Chapel Hill, Univ of Pennsylvania, Univ of Wisconsin at Madison. A mostly psychiatric report on the inmates at the Los Teques Prison & Penitentiary for Women, State of Miranda. Rísquez was a psychiatrist. Judging from the description in OCLC, this is a report on the second group. Apparently another volume of 459 pages covered the first group.
Sadoff Collection page 159.
Studies the use of the insanity plea in the trial of four 20th century English murderers: Ronald True; Henry Jacoby; Thomas John Ley; John Thomas Straffen.
Sadoff Catalog page 161. Ruggles-Brise was President of the Internatational Prison Commission and Chairman of the Prison Commission for England and Wales.
Explores the fairy-tale fantasies of eight murderers.
Contains most of Rush's writings on social reform, with essays added for this second edition.
Sadoff Collection p. 163.
Schlapp was Professor of Neuropathology at the NY Post-Graduate Medical School.
Shoham was Professor of Law and Criminology at Tel Aviv University.
Shoham was director of the Criminology Institute of the Law Faculty in the University of Tel Aviv.
Sadoff Collection page 166. Smith was Medical Officer of H. M. Prison, Birmingham; Lecturer on Criminology in the University of Birmingham.
An authority on the sociological causes of and methods for the reduction of juvenile delinquency, Sorrentino had worked with the renosned criminologist Clifford R. Shaw and had formerly been executive director of both the Illinois Commission on Delinquency Prevention and the Chicago Area Project.
Sadoff Collection page 167. Alleged first-person account by an unnamed deputy sheriff of abuses of prisoners in an unnamed large southern California county jail.
Includes reports on the Utica & Bloomingdale asylums and the Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf & Dumb, as well as all the state-supported hospitals, jails, and asylums.
Stearns was Dean of Tufts College Medical School.
Stutsman was General Superintendent of Rockview Penitentiary, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, before which he had been General Secretary of the Maryland Prisoners' Aid Association.
Though called the third edition, we can find no record of what should be the first edition, the "second edition" having appeared in 1973.
McDade 3; American Imprints 7702; Sabin 102075.
Sadoff Collection page 174.
Wertham's fourth book, in which he presented to a popular audience his theory of the Catathymic Crisis where an act of violence provides a solution to severe emotional conflict whose real nature remains below the person's threshold of consciousness. He discusses his own role in a number of celebrated murder cases, attempting in each case to uncover the effect of social forces in creating the impulse to murder.
Sadoff Collection page 175. White's second and last book on forensic psychiatry.
At the time General Secretary of the National Committee on Prison Labor, Whitin was a penologist with a special interest in prison labor and the treatment of prisoners. He co-authored with Jacob L. Moreno several pamphlets in 1932, "Plan and Technique of Developing a Prison into a Socialized Community" and "Application of the Group Method to Classification."
Willemse was lecturer in psychology at the University of Pretoria.
Wilson was medical superintendent at the Mavisbank Asylum.
Wines visited most of the countries of Europe and reported on their prison methods. Largey as a result of his efforts, representatives from 22 nations convened at the first International Penitentiary Congress at London in 1872, which resulted in the creation of an international and several national organizations [see the DAB entry on Wines].
Comprehensive survey of prisons and child-saving institutions throughout the world with sections on European countries, Asia, Mexico, Central & South America.
Wines was Special Agent of the Eleventh United States Census on Crime, Pauperism, and Benevolence; previously Secretary to the State Commissioners of Public Charities for the State of Illinois. Lane's revisions are extensive, with 6 of the original chapters being dropped and with the addition of completely new chapters on the study of the individual delinquent, treatment, inmate self-government, and further causes and prevention.
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