Recent Contributions in the Field of Juvenile Delinquency, Child Welfare, and Family Case Work

Abstract

This plan, improved by providing that the second part shall be in the hands of a board of experts, has been proposed for the State of New York by Governor Smith. Beginning in the winter of I92.3-4 a series of conferences was held under the auspices of the National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor for the promotion of the States' Use System of the products of prison industries. Under this plan an agreement would be made by a group of states whereby the prisons of one state would manufacture a certain product which would be furnished to the institutions of a group of states; a second state would manufacture another article, and so on. The principle was rather readily accepted by the delegates to the various regional conferences held, but little or no progress has been made toward putting the plan into operation. On November z and 3, I92.7, a National Conference on the reduction of crime called by the National Crime Commission met in Washington. The meeting had for its chief object, the providing of an opportunity for the exchange of views. Everybody was represented except the criminals. Crime commissions, merchants, associations, chambers of commerce, organized labor, policemen, the President's Cabinet, trained penologists, psychiatrists, the rotary club, and the supreme court, each had its spokesman who presented his own point of view or his particular interest in the reduction of crime.