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The Hawkspur Experiment: An Informal Account of the Training of Wayward Adolescents

The Hawkspur Experiment: An Informal Account of the Training of Wayward Adolescents

Wills, W. David

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Adolescent

General Sociology

ISBN10: 1032380454
ISBN13: 9781032380452
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 29 2022
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Originally published in 1941 and written in an attempt to dispute the popular assumption at the time that a 'bit of discipline' is what is needed for the correction of young men who show delinquent tendencies, this book is much more than that.

Basically an account of a kind of voluntary Borstal Institution of which the author was head from 1936 to 1940, its interest on reissue in 1967 lay in the fact that it contained the germinal ideas of most of the day's newest methods in penal treatment, not just as ideas, but in practice. Here is the therapeutic community in embryo, here are the beginnings of group therapy, of inmate participation in treatment, of therapy through relationships. None of them are mentioned by name - the names had not been invented; but anyone who wanted to understand the trends in the treatment of delinquent and maladjusted people at the time would find it all here in simple untechnical English.

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