The Adolescent Criminal

collaboration with Percy Stocks and H. T. P. * j With Foreword by Sir Alexander Maxwell. JChurchill. 1942. Pp. 327. 45s. jj, This book is the result of an investigation into characteristics of 4,000 lads between 16 and 20 ye^f age, received at the Boys' Prison at Wormwood Sc^ between 1930 and 1937, before entering one of Borstal Institutions. In some ways it may be reg^T, as a continuation of Dr. Charles Goring's classic stu?| 3,000 English convicts, the results of which were P., lished shortly before the outbreak of the last Like Dr. Goring's, the enquiry on which the present v is based had a semi-official character and could be cajjv out only with the fullest support of the Home Oj\, Although the result of team work, it was through, directed by Dr. Norwood East in his former capaCw\ Medical Prison Commissioner, assisted by Dr. H. \Young, the senior medical officer at Wormwood Dr. Percy Stocks, medical statistician at the GejL Register Office, and by several prison medical on1 and women visitors. Sir Alexander Maxwell, Pern^1:, Under Secretary of State, Home Office, formerly man of the Prison Commission for England and WL has contributed the Foreword in which he pays tribute to Dr. East's outstanding contributions to theoretical study and practical treatment of j criminal. Mr. Alec Paterson, the Prison Commiss1^ in charge of the Borstal Institutions, and ^ experts, were frequently consulted in the course enquiry. {j The investigation had to be limited to boys.1.;, London and surroundings whose homes could be vis'j The available data, however, have been analysed v