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Cover image of the book The Development of Probation
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The Development of Probation

Author
Charles L. Chute
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8 pages

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A presentation at the Fifty-First Congress of the American Prison Association in Jacksonville, Florida.

CHARLES L. CHUTE was secretary of the National Probation Association in New York

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Cover image of the book Methods of Obtaining Confessions and Information from Persons Accused of Crime
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Methods of Obtaining Confessions and Information from Persons Accused of Crime

Authors
B. Ogden Chisolm
Hastings H. Hart
Ebook
Publication Date
21 pages

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Presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1921, this report details the practice commonly known as the "Third Degree," a means of obtaining information from persons under suspicion of crime involving a high degree of pressure applied to the accused to compel them to confess or to give evidence that the persecutor desires. The prosecuting attorneys and chiefs of police in some of the largest cities in the United States answered questionnaires regarding the practice of this interrogation. The report also looks into the possible abuses that exist in this method and potential reforms.

B. OGDEN CHISOLM was International Prison Commissioner, Washington, D.C.

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

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Cover image of the book The Standard of Living Among Workingmen's Families in New York City
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The Standard of Living Among Workingmen's Families in New York City

Author
Robert Coit Chapin
Ebook
Publication Date
403 pages

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Published in 1909, this report is a result of a New York State Conference of Charities and Correction–appointed study on the essentials and cost of a normal standard of living in the cities and towns of the state, followed by a detailed analysis of the compiled data of workingmen's budgets.

ROBERT COIT CHAPIN was Horace White Professor of economics and finance in Beloit College, Wisconsin.

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Public Pensions to Widows with Children

A Study of Their Administration in Several American Cities
Author
C. C. Carstens
Ebook
Publication Date
39 pages

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For three months beginning August 1, 1912, Mr. Carstens was commissioned by the Russell Sage Foundation to study the actual working of public pensions to widows with children in certain western communities.

C.C. CARSTENS was secretary of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

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Cover image of the book The Southern Highlander and His Homeland
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The Southern Highlander and His Homeland

Author
John C. Campbell
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Publication Date
504 pages

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The following pages are the outcome of twenty-five years of life and experience in the mountain country of the South, taken on by John C. Campbell. From his time as a teacher in a remote section of the mountains, until the time of his death, when he was Secretary of the Southern Highland Division of the Russell Sage Foundation, he was continuously engaged in the service of the Highland people.

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Southern Highland Schools

Maintained by Denominational and Independent Agencies
Editor
Olive D. Campbell
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Publication Date
17 pages

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A list of all school work under other than public auspices carried on in the Southern Highlands primarily for the Southern Highlanders. All data which were based on information secured by John C. Campbell, Secretary of the Southern Highland Division of the Russell Sage Foundation, are given for 1919 - 1920.

JOHN C. CAMPBELL was secretary, Southern Highland Division, Russell Sage Foundation.

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The Confidential Exchange

A Form of Social Co-Operation
Author
Margaret F. Byington
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Publication Date
34 pages

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This report, prepared by the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation in 1912, is an account of the methods of exchanges, charity indexes cataloguing relief and resources in an area, then in operation in the United States. It comprises of the author’s research around the oldest exchange conducted by the Boston Associated Charities, a list of the reasons behind the growth in interest around exchanges at the time, and an account of their administration and office details.

MARGARET F. BYINGTON was associate director of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Women and the Trades

Pittsburgh 1907-1908
Author
Elizabeth Beardsley Butler
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Publication Date
504 pages

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A volume in the Pittsburgh Survey, edited by Paul Underwood Kellogg. The Pittsburgh Survey had been planned by the editors of "Charities and The Commons" before the organization of the Russell Sage Foundation. The Charities Publication Committee accepted and assumed responsibility for the project.

ELIZABETH BEARDSLEY BUTLER was secretary of the Consumers League of New Jersey.

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Saleswomen in Mercantile Stores

Baltimore, 1909
Author
Elizabeth Beardsley Butler
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Publication Date
266 pages

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A report sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Consumers' League of Maryland in 1909, this book studies female workers in mercantile stores in Baltimore. While this report deals only with one set of industrial conditions in a single city, it is suggestive of other cities in the country.

ELIZABETH BEARDSLEY BUTLER was secretary of the Consumers League of New Jersey.

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Proceedings of the Second Annual Playground Congress

Editor
Anna L. von der Osten
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Publication Date
556 pages

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The proceedings of the Second Annual Playground Congress of the Playground Association of America. The congress was held in New York in 1908, under the presidency of the Hon, George B. McClellan, Mayor of New York City.

ANNA L. VON DER OSTEN was officer of the Playground Association of America.

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