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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt:... CORRECTIVE INSTITUTIONS. Crime cannot be suppressed by intimidation--The certainty of punishment does not suppress crime--The experience of punishment does not deter--Why punishment is ineffective--Punishment does not remove the conditions which produce crime-- The ameliorative method of dealing with juvenile crime-- The principle on which it rests--The practical application of the principle by voluntary societies--The practical application of educative methods by the State -- State institutions for juvenile offenders in Great Britain--Population of these institutions--Cost of juvenile institutions--Effect on crime of institutions for juvenile offenders--Prison population--Committal to prison--Cases of Scotland and the United States--The increase or decrease of crime is not entirely dependent on the juvenile population--Large cities produce crime--Economic vicissitudes produce it--Crime may increase in spite of institutions for juvenile offenders--How to measure the worth of juvenile institutions--Percentage of inmates who do well in after-life. --Reconviction the test of well-doing--Value of the returns relating to reconvictions--Value of juvenile institutions--Corrective institutions a necessity--Cases for committal to these institutions--The committal of first offenders--The committal of young children--Committal of children to day industrial schools and truant schools--Cases for day industrial schools-- Training in day industrial schools--Truant schools--The object of truant schools--Dull and defective children--Treatment of children in truant schools--Individualisation in truant schools --Punishment in truant schools--The treatment of juvenile offenders over sixteen in England--In the United States--Dr. Appelius and Professor Stoos...