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The Extinction of the Defective Delinquent

A Working Program
Author
Hastings H. Hart
Hardcover
Publication Date
18 pages

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A paper read before the American Prison Association in Baltimore in 1912.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Penal and Reformatory Institutions

Editor
Charles Richmond Henderson
Hardcover
Publication Date
460 pages

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A volume of the Correction and Prevention papers prepared for the Eighth International Prison Congress in 1910, this book is an account of correctional institutions. Most of the book is devoted to reformatories and prisons in the northern United States. It includes papers on the evolution and reforms of the prison system, the methods in which offenders are trained for responsible citizenship, and prison conditions for women.

CHARLES RICHMOND HENDERSON was professor of sociology in the University of Chicago and commissioner for the United States on the International Prison Commission.

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Preventive Treatment of Neglected Children

Author
Hastings H. Hart
Ebook
Publication Date
487 pages

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A volume of the Correction and Prevention papers prepared for the Eighth International Prison Congress in 1910, published by the Charities Publication Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation. From the preface: “This volume is designed especially to furnish reliable information to the delegates in attendance upon the International Prison Congress with reference to the progress of work for neglected children in the United States. The subject is studied in its concrete form, and the effort is made to give a comprehensive view of what is being undertaken in the United States for the prevention of juvenile delinquency, and, thereby, of adult delinquency. … The study in Part Three, relating to Cottage and Congregate Institutions, has been made by the Child-Helping Department of the Russell Sage Foundation, for the special benefit of boards of trustees who are contemplating the building of new institutions for children or the re-organization of old ones. It is accompanied by plans for a children’s cottage with outside sleeping porches designed by the author and executed by Robert W. Gardner, Architect, of New York City.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Sterilization and Segregation

Author
Henry H. Goddard
Ebook
Publication Date
12 pages

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This 1912 paper analyzes the various issues behind a proposal aimed at preventing the increase of criminals, the sterilization of the mentally deficient. It looks into the legal problems surrounding such a proposal, as well as an alternative segregation plan, to document the proposal’s ineffectiveness.

HENRY H. GODDARD was professor at the Department of Research at the Vineland Training School for Feeble-Minded Children, Vineland, N.J.

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A Study of Results of Institutional Care

Author
William J. Doherty
Ebook
Publication Date
17 pages

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A paper read before the children's section of the National Conference of Charities and Correction in Baltimore in May of 1915. Published by the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

WILLIAM J. DOHERTY was second deputy commissioner in the department of public charities of New York City.

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Inter High School Athletics

Author
Earl Cline
Ebook
Publication Date
13 pages

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Reprinted from the American Physical Education Review by the Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation, this report was read at the State Teachers’ Association of Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1909. It asks the question: are inter-high-school athletic contests beneficial or destructive to the schools participating?

EARL CLINE, Principal High School, Sidney, Nebraska

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Sociology and the Field of Mental Health

Author
John A. Clausen
Ebook
Publication Date
64 pages

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Prepared for the American Sociological Society in 1956, this book considers the ways and means of more effective utilization of sociology in the treatment of mental illness. It calls for more effective practice and the advancement of basic research and theory in regards to mental illness.

JOHN A. CLAUSEN was Chief Laboratory of Socio-environmental Studies National Institute of Mental Health

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What Social Workers Should Know About Their Own Communities

An Outline
Author
Margaret F. Byington
Ebook
Publication Date
44 pages

About This Book

This 1911 pamphlet is an outline to aid those enlisted in social work as a profession, a cursory review of local conditions that look at the new topics that have informed social work in the 20th century, such as industry, child labor, city administration, and community organization.

MARGARET F. BYINGTON was associate director of the charity organization department of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Boyhood and Lawlessness

Author
Ruth S. True
Ebook
Publication Date
134 pages

About This Book

A volume of the West Side studies, field work conducted in the summer of 1912. A wider study of the Manhattan neighborhood under the Bureau of Social Research of New York School of Philanthropy with funds supplied by the Russell Sage Foundation.

RUTH S. TRUE, New York Survey Associates, Inc.

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Care of Mental Defectives, the Insane, and Alcoholics in Springfield, Illinois

A Study by the National Committee for Mental Hygiene
Author
Walter R. Treadway
Ebook
Publication Date
64 pages

About This Book

A special study of the Springfield Survey.

WALTER L. TREADWAY, assistant surgeon, U.S. Public Health Service.

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