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- Title
THE HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION AGAIN.
- Authors
Wigmore, John H.
- Abstract
The article presents author's narrative of the parole work in New Jersey. In the last number of the Journal we reported the very interesting fact that the Board of Parole of Illinois is about to experiment with tables of predictability in its parole work. In other words, it intends to try to put selection on a scientific basis after the manner advocated by Burgess, the Gluecks and others. We regard this as a development well worth watching. Inadvertently, in our editorial, however, we slated that New Jersey had already adopted the prediction system. This was an error. Selection in New Jersey is carried out through a classification system, the purpose of which is to make as careful studies of individual offenders as possible. The system in that state has been very clearly described in our Progress Number (Vol. XXIV, May-June 1933, pp. 88-108) by Mr. Winthrop D. Lane. Mr. Lane has, for a number of years, been Director of the Division of Parole in the New Jersey Department of Institutions and Agencies. During this period New Jersey has developed a thorough and intensive classification procedure based on careful studies and histories of individual prisoners and has won a position of leadership wherever questions of parole are being considered.
- Subjects
PAROLE; WORK release of prisoners; PERIODICALS; LANE, Winthrop D.; PRISONERS; JOURNALISM
- Publication
Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology (08852731), 1933, Vol 24, Issue 3, p517
- ISSN
0885-2731
- Publication type
Editorial