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- Title
PREVENTIVES OF DELINQUENCY.
- Authors
Gault, Robert H .
- Abstract
The article presents information about various measures to eliminate of crime and prostitution. One of the most important addresses before the world's purity congress, recently in session in Minneapolis, Minnesota was that by Harry Olson, Chief Justice of the Municipal Court in Chicago, on November 9. The contributing causes of vice and methods of prevention comprised the subject matter of his discourse. The data from the Morals Court includes a statement relative to the stage in school life that had been attained by those charged before the court with addiction to the social evil, and this is assumed, justifiably, to have a bearing upon the prevalence of crime and prostitution. The article author thinks that Olson is quite right when he says that people should look to the public school to identify the defective before he becomes delinquent. Through the extension and enforcement of compulsory education, the modification of parental school laws, the development of vocational education systems for misfits in the traditional grammar and high schools, the establishment of special schools to which to commit those youths who are proven mentally defective and beyond the reach of the regular agencies, and by sane attention to hygiene, people may attain the eighty per cent elimination of crime and prostitution that Olson foresees.
- Subjects
CRIME prevention; SEX work; OLSON, Harry; PUBLIC schools; PREVENTION; VICTIMLESS crimes
- Publication
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1914, Vol 4, Issue 5, p637
- ISSN
0885-4173
- Publication type
Article