International Prison Research Articles

REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS.

British Journal of InebrietyVolume 19, Issue 3 p. 130-142 REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. First published: January 1922 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1922.tb04384.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Abstract Reviews in This Article The English Prison System. By Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise, K.G.B. Chairman of the Prison Commission for England and Wales, and President of the International Prison Commission. Pp. A Study OF Women Delinquents IN New York State. By Mabel Ruth Fernald, Mary Holmes Stevens Hayes, Almena Dawley. With a Statistical Chapter by Beardsley Ruml and Preface by Katharine Bement Davis. Pp. Mind AND ITS Disorders : A Textbook FOR Students AND Practitioners OF Medicine. By W. H. B. Stoddart, M.D., F.R.C.P., Lecturer on Mental Diseases to St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School, Hon. Treasurer of the British Psychological Society and of the British Psycho-Analytic Society; late Resident Physician and Medical Superintendent of Bethlera Royal Hospital. Fourth edition. Pp. The Diagnosis AND Treatment OF Venereal Disease IN General Practice. By L. W. Harrison, D.S.O., M.B., CH.B., M.R.C.P. ED., Brevet-Colonel R.A.M.C, and K.H.P. (Ret.), Director of the Venereal Diseases Department of St. Thomas's Hospital; formerly Lecturer on Venereal Diseases, Military Hospital, Rochester Row, London. With a chapter on the Medico-Legal Aspects of Venereal Disease by F. G. Crookshank, M.D., F.R.C.P. Third Edition. Pp. The Stages OF Human Life. By J. Lionel Tayler, M.R.C.S. Pp. Developmental Pathology : A Study IN Degenerative Evolution. By Eugene S. Talbot, M.S., D.D.S., M.D., LL.D., Professor of Stomatology, Bennett Medical College, Loyola University. Pp. Physic AND Fiction. By S. Squire Sprigge. Pp. Sex AND Commonsense. By A. Maude Royden. Pp. The Psychology OF Medicine. By T. W. Mitchell, M.D. Pp. The Gain OF Personality : A Popular Psychological Statement OF THE Practical Values OF Personality. By W. Charles Loosmore, M.A. Pp. Epilepsy, Hysteria, AND Neurasthenia: THEIR Causes, Symptoms, AND Treatment. By Isaac G. Briggs, A.R.S.I. Pp. National Welfare AND National Decay. By William MoDougall, F.R.S., Professor of Psychology in Harvard University, formerly Reader in Mental Philosophy in the University of Oxford. Pp. Human Psychology. By Howard G. Warren, Stuart Professor of Psychology in Princeton University, New Jersey. Boston, U.S.A. : Houghton Mifflin Company. 1920. Symptomatology, Psyghognosis, AND Diagnosis OF Psychopathic Diseases. By Boris Sidis, A.M., Ph.D., M.D., Medical Director of the Sidis Psychotherapeutic Institute, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S.A. Pp. Militarism AFTER THE War. By Dr. V. H. Rutherford. Pp. Volume19, Issue3January 1922Pages 130-142 RelatedInformation

Social Significance of Christianity in Modern Asia. I

This is the first of a series of articles by Professor Henderson containing his estimate of the progress of Christianity in India, Burmah, China, and Japan. Professor Henderson has just returned from a visit of several months in Asia whither he went as lecturer upon the Barrows Foundation of the University of Chicago. Professor Henderson, in addition to being an active Christian worker, has won highest recognition as a sociologist. He is the American member of the International Prison Commission, President of the United Charities of Chicago, and has served as president or secretary of many commissions and national conferences on social matters. His opinions are therefore those of a trained observer, and are of special value for all those interested in the progress of foreign missions.

Report of the Committee on Criminal Statistics of the American Prison Association

At the International Prison Congress held at Washington last year tlhe foreign delegates, while they seemed favorably impressed by most of our institutions, were outspoken in condemnation of our county jails and our criminal statistics. They could not repress their amazement at the dearth of official statistics regarding crime in the United States. Possibly it may be doubted whether any of the novelties they observed here produced on their minds so lasting and injurious an impression of this country, regarded from the point of view of scientific penology, as that caused by the meagerness and practical inutility of our criminal statistics. It must be freely admitted that the English and some of the continental statistics of crime are far in advance of our own in comprehensiveness, in method, and in scientific value. But the inadequacy of the criminal statistics of the United States is largely owing to a condition which does not exist in England or hardly on the Continent. We are confronted with difficulties that are practically unknown on the other side of the Atlantic; difficulties inherent in the dual system of government existing in this country. In the division of sovereignty between the Federal Government and the States, the treatment of crime falls within the jurisdiction of the States. Congress, it is true, acting within the limits closely defined in the Constitution, has the power to declare certain acts which are injurious to the nation to be crimes. Thus there is a Federal Criminal Code, violations of which are within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal Courts. But these crimes are only those that bear relation to the central government; they are comparatively few in number. The vast volume of crime in this country comes under the exclusive jurisdiction of the separate States. The establishment of police and constabulary forces, the detection and arrest of offenders, the trial and sentencing of criminals, the administration of prisons, all are included within the functions of the States. The rules and regulations governing the police, the courts, the prisons, all the details of their administration and of their records are thus matters of State jurisdiction. And in

Children's Courts in the United States: Reports Prepared for the International Prison Commission.Samuel J. Barrows

<i>Children's Courts in the United States: Reports Prepared for the International Prison Commission.</i>Samuel J. Barrows

The Criminal Insane in the United States and in Foreign Countries. Report by S. J. Barrows, Commissioner for the United States on the International Prison Commission. Washington Government Office, 1898.

The Criminal Insane in the United States and in Foreign Countries. Report by S. J. Barrows, Commissioner for the United States on the International Prison Commission. Washington Government Office, 1898.

Reports on: 1. The Fourth Session of the Permanent Commission of the International Statistical Congress, Held in Paris, 10th-20th July, 1878; 2. The First Session of the International Congress of Demography and Medical Geography, held in Paris, 5th-10th July, 1878; 3. The Second Session of the International Prison Congress, Held in Stockholm, 20th-27th August, 1878

Reports on: 1. The Fourth Session of the Permanent Commission of the International Statistical Congress, Held in Paris, 10th-20th July, 1878; 2. The First Session of the International Congress of Demography and Medical Geography, held in Paris, 5th-10th July, 1878; 3. The Second Session of the International Prison Congress, Held in Stockholm, 20th-27th August, 1878