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Revival: Young Offenders (1938): Yesterday and Today book cover

1st Edition

Revival: Young Offenders (1938) Yesterday and Today

By Geraldine S. Cadbury Copyright 1938
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge
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This unusual book tells vividly the story of children who have broken the law and their treatment from the time of King Athelstan to present day. With few exceptions, they suffered for centuries the same harsh treatment as older men and women, and it was only gradually that the terrible conditions in the prisons in this and other countries improved The early experiments in wiser treatment... Read more

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I. Athelstan and Early Treatment

II. Children in Newgate and Other Prisons

III. Transportation

IV. New Experiments

V. Mary Carpenter and other Pioneers

VI. Juvenile Courts in America

VII. Probation of Offenders act, 1907, Children Act, 1908, Early Juvenile Courts in England

VIII. Industrial Schools and Reformatories

IX. A Belgian Observation Home X. Children and Young Persons Act, 1933

XI. The Juvenile Court To-Day

XII. Causes of Juvenile Delinquency and Future Methods of Treatment. Appendix Chronology Index

Biography

Dame Geraldine Southall Cadbury, DBE (29 June 1864 – 30 January 1941)[1] was a British Quaker, author, social and penal reformer. She was the wife of Barrow Cadbury, with whom she had three children, Dorothy Adlington, (1892-1987), Paul Strangman (1895-1984), and Geraldine Mary, (1900-1999).

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