Michigan's Experiment in Minimum Security Penology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14828359 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vernon Fox (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1950 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 150 |
| Publication date | 1950-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1931-1951 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0885-2731 • E-ISSN: 2160-0015 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1138421 |
| OpenAlex | W24615475 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
During the war years the newspapers, school officials, and the general public became concerned with juvenile delinquency. In Michigan, Governor Harry F. Kelly appointed a Youth Study Commission which made a survey of the opinions of police chiefs, school officials, and probate judges with regard to what they thought about juvenile delinquency. The Department of Corrections was intent upon establishing on an experimental basis a minimum security, wall-less, honor camp type of institution for the young, reformable, first-offenders who had been sentenced to prison. The thinking of public officials had been emphasizing prevention of delinquency and the treatment of the reformable firstoffender
Aeronautics · Criminology · Penology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Education Discipline and Inequality · Engineering · Law, Rights, and Freedoms · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.02 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1972 - 1972 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |