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Trends in European corrections / by John P. Conrad.
- Title
- Trends in European corrections / by John P. Conrad.
- Author
- Conrad, John P. (John Phillips), 1913-
- Publication
- [Washington, D.C.] : President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, 1967.
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- Additional Authors
- United States. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice
- Description
- 50 p.; 28 cm.
- Summary
- This report looks at the administrative approaches to corrections, notes on the increasing acceptance of psychiatry and probation, and youthful offender treatment systems. The author identifies certain correctional practices that are similar in the European countries, and analyzes their influence on proposed correctional reforms. The essentials of the British, Danish, and Soviet approaches to the treatment and management of the youthful offender are summarized. European principles which have significance for American correctional planners are outlined.
- Subject
- Corrections > Europe
- Note
- Cover title.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Interpretations and analyses. Psychiatry and corrections -- Increasing use of probation -- The search for correctional success -- Three correctional systems. New departure in England and Scotland -- The Danish child welfare system -- The heirs of Makarenko -- Implications for American practice -- Footnotes.
- OCLC
- 13994721
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library