NCJ Number
42549
Date Published
1974
Length
103 pages
Annotation
MAKING COMPARISONS BETWEEN NATIONAL SYSTEMS, THIS STUDY CRITICALLY SURVEYS THE METHODS OF RE-EDUCATION EMPLOYED IN WORKING WITH YOUNG OFFENDERS.
Abstract
FURTHER, THIS STUDY ATTEMPTS TO DRAW CONCLUSIONS WHICH COULD SERVE, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO INNOVATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS ALREADY UNDERTAKEN, AS A SOURCE OF GUIDANCE TO OTHER MEMBER STATES OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE IN THE TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS AND THE PREVENTION OF CRIME AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE. THOSE INVOLVED IN THE STUDY COMPILED AN INVENTORY OF THE MOST RECENT EXPERIMENTS EMBARKED UPON IN THIS FIELD AND THE MOST NOVEL SOLUTIONS APPLIED TO THE PROBLEM OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY, INCLUDING SIGNIFICANT EXPERIMENTS. A NUMBER OF EXPERIMENTS CARRIED OUT IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES ARE DESCRIBED IN THE APPENDICES. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT)...KAP