TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Obvious errors and omissions in punctuation have been fixed. Any inconsistencies in spelling have been retained. Table of contents was created by the transcriber and is hereby placed in the public domain. VOLUME I, No. 6. JUNE, 1911 THE REVIEW A MONTHLY PERIODICAL, PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL PRISONERS’ AID ASSOCIATION AT 135 EAST 15th STREET, NEW YORK CITY. TEN CENTS A COPY. SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS A YEAR E. F. Waite, President. F. Emory Lyon, Vice President. O. F. Lewis, Secretary and Editor Review. E. A. Fredenhagen, Chairman Ex. Committee. James Parsons, Member Ex. Committee. A. H. Votaw, Member Ex. Committee. G. E. Cornwall, Member Ex. Committee. Albert Steelman, Member Ex. Committee. CONTENTS Page The National Conference 1 Report of Committee on Lawbreakers 2 The Suppression of Moral Defectives 7 The Abolition of the Jail 8 Mental Defects and Delinquency 9 Treatment of the Mental Defective who is also Delinquent 13 Placing Misdemeanants on Probation 14 THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE The national conference of charities and correction was held in Boston from June 7 to June 14. The committee on lawbreakers had the opening session, on Wednesday. Three section meetings were held by the committee during conference week. The REVIEW prints in this issue many of the papers prepared for the sessions of the “lawbreakers,” as they were facetiously called. Other papers will be printed next month. This is a small monthly, and some papers have been crowded out. The keynotes of the “lawbreakers” sections were: (1) Need for the abolition of local and county jails as prisons for convicted offenders and the establishment in their places of state district workhouses or houses of correction; (2) full and impartial consideration by the national conference of the problem of prison labor; (3) more rational and adequate treatment of the mentally defective delinquent; (4) the imperative need of a change in our treatment of misdemeanants, especially vagrants, inebriates and offenders under the age of 21; (5) the necessity of standardizing the methodology of probation work; (6) the need of far greater organization of parole work; (7) the necessity of developing crime statistics and statistics regarding offenders so that records may be of real value. Many other notes were struck. The spirit of the sessions was optimistic, but questions and comments were frank and searching. The committee on lawbreakers has a very definite place on the program, even though, as this year, the name of the committee may be changed, the committee for 1912 being called “committee on courts and prisons.”