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Gillin was Professor of Sociology in the University of Pennsylvania.
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.
Goldsmith 22754; Sadoff Catalog page 41. An important Quaker humanitarian reformer of the early 19th century, Gurney wrote about prison reform and took part in the anti-slavery movement with Clarkson, Wilberforce, and Buxton, touring the U.S. and Canada on behalf of abolition. His first published work on reform was his 1819 Notes on a Visit made to some of the Prisons in Scotland and the North of England, in Company with Elizabeth Fry. Gurney and his sister Elizabeth (Gurney) Fry (1780-1846)—herself a notable social reformer—made their tour in 1818, reporting in some detail on many of the prisons. The latter part of the book deals with issues of food & clothing, discipline, employment, instruction, and visiting committees.
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 history of capital punishment, hanging, and gibbeting from antiquity through the 19th century. Covers both the UK and western Europe.
A detailed discussion of the origin and history of the Borstal system that compared its results with American reformatory methods.
Pages 125-147 contain [Thomas] Cole[man] Younger's account of the Northfield, Minnesota bank robbery.
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).
A thorough survey of prison systems and reformatories (organization, rules & procedures) in Europe and America, with material on every state. Henderson was professor of sociology in the University of Chicago.
Points out the menace to the public from hundreds of unsupervised tourist camps, 1940-style hideaways for public enemies.
Sadoff Collection p. 132. Chpaters on penal methods of the middle ages, witches, treatment of the insane, the origin of cell prisons, penal servitude, etc.
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).
Examines four murder trials with respect to the insanity plea: James Hadfield (1800); Daniel M'Naughton (1843); Straffen (1952); Gunther Podola (1959).
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.
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.
Volume I is entirely devoted to the history and description of the following institutions: State Penitentiaries for the Western and Eastern Districts of PA; Western PA Hospital for the Insane, Dixmont; State Lunatic Hospital, Harrisburg; Pennsylvania State College; Soldiers' Orphan Schools; Hospitals for the Insane at Danville and Warren; Reform School at Morganza; Hospital for the Insane, Southeastern Disctrict, Norristown; Industrial Reformatory, Huntingdon; Hospital for Injured Persons of the Anthracite Coal Region, Schuykill County; Soldiers' and Sailor's Home, Erie; Hospital for Injured Persons of the Middle Coal Field, Hazleton; Cottage State Hospitals at Blossburg, Connellsville, and Mercer; Home for the Training in Speech of Deaf Children Before They Are of School Age, Philadelphia; Asylum for the Chronic Insane, Wernersville.
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.
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