Abstract
The establishment of a new training regime or the introduction of major changes in technique in a training institution calls for some attempt at evaluation. The development of training methods at Huntercombe borstal from 1961 onwards provided the original stimu lus for the present study; but the opportunity was taken to attempt a slightly more generalised follow-up of borstal inmates, including any light that might be thrown on the comparative effects of several different institutions. It should perhaps be emphasised at the outset that the results later expressed in percentage success rates cannot be taken as wholly representative of the general results of borstal training, for reasons that should become apparent (only seven institutions are repre sented, and our samples are in certain ways selected). Apart from Huntercombe, no institution referred to is fully represented, so that, although comparisons between institutions are made as the only way in which any one institution's results can be illuminated, this is not to be taken as invidious or inferring criticism.
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