Fifty Years Ago
| DOI | 10.1177/026455056701300308 |
| Published date | 01 September 1967 |
| Date | 01 September 1967 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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review
committee
to
include
an
independent
fourth
member
thus
demonstrating,
once
again,
the
faith
of
the
English
in
the
wisdom
of
the
amateur.
FIFTY
YEARS
AGO
From
The
Journal
of
the
National
Association
of
Probation
Officers
No. 8,
9
July,
1917.
[The
following
extract
is
from
an
article
by
H.
T.
Muggeridge
entitled &dquo;
A
Plea
for
Diversity &dquo;.]
I
plead
for
diversity
in
dealing
with
the
child,
for
constant
experiment,
for
the
open
and
not
the
closed
mind,
and,
above
all,
for
a
due
appreciation
of
the
mystical
properties
of
the
subject
with
which
we
are
dealing.
Something
analogous
to
the studio
and
the
laboratory
are
needed
in
addition
to
the
Refor-
matory,
the
Prison,
the
Cane,
and
the
Reformatory
Oflicer.
Unless
our
attitude
is
one
of
research
as
well
as
of
control
we
are
in
danger
of
suppressing
or
malforming
some
of
the
stronger
or
more
original
minds
born
in
our
midst.
To
steam-roller
out
of
existence
every
appearance
of
the
over-spirit
in
children
because
its
manifestations
do
not
adapt
themselves
to
existing
codes
and
regula-
tions,
or
to
the
conveniences
of
rather
self-complacent
adults,
is
to
deprive
the
world
of
possible
geniuses,
or
at
least
to
divert
the
unsubduable
spirit
into
channels
of
destruction
instead
of,
as
well
might
be
the
case,
into
rivers
of
creative
effort.
As
a
great
President
of
the
United
States
once
said,
&dquo; I
never
pass
a
poor
little
boy
in
the
street
but
I
think
perhaps
I
ought
to
take
off
my
hat
to
him,
as
one
never
knows
what
possibilities
are
wrapped
up
within
the
ragged
folds
of
his
little
waistcoat &dquo;.
BOOK
REVIEWS
Frontiers
of
Criminology
(Summary
of
the
Proceedings
of
the
British
Congress
on
Crime,
1966)
Edited
by
H.
J.
Klare
and
David
Haxby
Pergamon
Press,
45s.
How
does
one
record
the
work
of
a
large
congress
attended
by
500
people
at
which
33
papers
are
presented
and
discussed
by
workers
from
a
variety
of
related
fields
some
of
which
have
only
remote
contact
with
each
other?
Lodge
posed
the
problem
clearly ...
&dquo; No
one
with
practical
knowledge
of
these ...
fields
will
fail
to
remember
some
occasion
when
he
has
felt
shocked
or
even
incredulous
at
the
naivety
or
downright
inaccuracy
of
some
statement
he
has
read
or
heard
about
his
own
work ....
It
is
a
genuinely
harassing
and
extremely
time-consuming
task
to
condense
and
simplify
research
proceedings,
without
unduly
distorting
them,
into
a
form
that
can
be
understood
by
people
without
a
technical
training &dquo;.
In
attempting
to
give
some
idea
of
the
rich
material
presented
in
the
Congress
Papers,
the
Editors
decided
to
print
the three
keynote
speeches
in
full,
with
references,
but
to
give
only
brief
summaries
of
the
main
arguments
presented
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