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8 Prison J. 1 (1928)

handle is hein.journals/prsjrnl8 and id is 1 raw text is: VOLUME VIII, No. 1 JANUARY, 1928 THE PRISON JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE SCIENCE OF PENOLOGY Published Quarterly by THE PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY (Organized 1787) 311 South Juniper St., Philadelphia, Pa. This Number (Twenty Cents) Fifty Cents a Year THE NATIONAL CRIME COMMISSION The most outstanding event of 1927 in penological movements was the conference at Washington, D. C., early in November, on the subject of Crime Reduction, though the proceedings of the Assembly were not exactly confined to this particular phase of the crime situation. The Conference was held under the care and auspices of the National Crime Commission, a voluntary organization with headquarters in New York City. We have understood that every State in the Union sent delegates. From the Probation Bulletin we learn that among those present were Governors, attorney generals, lawyers, judges, police chiefs, heads of correctional institutions, mem- bers of crime commissions. More than fifty organizations dealing with crime and its problems, working, many of them, for the improvement in methods of treating criminals, were officially represented. Brief reports were presented from a number of Crime Commis- sions from every part of the United States. Richard Washburn Child, Chairman of the National Crime Com- mission, was unavoidably absent but sent a paper dealing with the progress, or lack of progress, in our onslaught on crime within the last ten years. A review of legislative enactment and effort in many of the States was illuminating. The subjects brought before this Conference covered a wide range. We heard about the success of the Bankers' Vigilantes in Iowa and Illinois; about the difficulties encountered in preventing the opera- tions of the fence; we heard pro and con in regard to the Baumes Law in New York State; the indeterminate sentence was opposed and defended; prison labor was discussed in its various phases; the advant- ages of phychiatric examinations were ably presented.