Probation as a Treatment Method A Critical Analysis of a Single Active Case of Probationer With Fetishistic Tendencies, Queens County Court Probation Department, October 1958 to May 1959
Abstract
There are two apparently irreconcilable points of view regarding the offender. There is the point of view of the average citizen who has neither studied the problem of crime, nor had any individual contact with individual offenders and who, therefore, forms his opinion from the press, the screen, and the detective story. No small part of the population builds up part of a hero worship for the criminal. But for the most part, the average citizen thinks of the offender only as a menace to life and property. His ideas as to the treatment of crime, if he has any at all, are restricted to protecting society by keeping the offender as long as possible within the walls' of a prison, and to punish him by making life as uncomfortable as possible for him.
Subject Area
Law|Law enforcement|Social work
Recommended Citation
Lennon, Patrick Joseph, "Probation as a Treatment Method A Critical Analysis of a Single Active Case of Probationer With Fetishistic Tendencies, Queens County Court Probation Department, October 1958 to May 1959" (1959). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30557679.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30557679
