1st Edition
The Hawkspur Experiment An Informal Account of the Training of Wayward Adolescents
By W. David Wills
Copyright 1967
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1941 and written in an attempt to dispute the popular assumption at the time that a ‘bit of discipline’ is what is needed for the correction of young men who show delinquent tendencies, this book is much more than that.
Basically an account of a kind of voluntary Borstal Institution of which the author was head from 1936 to 1940, its interest on reissue in 1967 lay in... Read more
Preface to First Edition. Preface to Second Edition. 1. The Common Cause 2. The Common Cure 3. This Freedom 4. Camp Council 5. Camp Council – Continued 6. Punishment 7. Work and Wages 8. Fathers and Sons 9. The Transference 10. Bunkers and Grousers 11. Sex 12. Homosexuality 13. Religion 14. Conclusion. Index.
Biography
W. David Wills
