Problems in American Democracy Part 36

16. Outline the purpose of the indeterminate sentence.

17. What are the chief functions of a modern prison?

REQUIRED READINGS

1. Williamson, _Readings in American Democracy_, chapter xxi.

Or all of the following:

2. Guitteau, _Government and Politics in the United States_, chapter xiii.

3. Lewis, _The Offender_, part iii, chapter i.

4. Smith, _Justice and the Poor_, pages 105-127.

5. Wines, _Punishment and Reformation_, chapter ii.

QUESTIONS ON THE REQUIRED READINGS

1. Distinguish between crime, vice and sin. (Wines, page 11.)

2. Define criminal law. (Wines, page 12.)

3. What is the distinction between public and private wrongs?

(Guitteau, pages 140-141.)

4. What are the first steps in a criminal action? (Guitteau, pages 142-143.)

5. What is an indictment? (Guitteau, page 143.)

6. Outline the steps in a criminal trial. (Guitteau, pages 144-146.)

7. What is a sumptuary law? (Wines, page 7.)

8. What are the eight distinct protections afforded by our criminal law? (Smith, page 108.)

9. What is the great defect of these protections? (Smith, page 111.)

10. What can be said as to the future development of the Public Defender movement? (Smith, page 127.)

11. Is the average age of offenders declining or increasing? (Lewis, page 254.)

12. What is the relation of the school to crime? (Lewis, pages 262- 270.)

13. What is the relation of recreational facilities to crime? (Lewis, pages 276-285.)

TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION AND REPORT

I

1. Make a cla.s.sification of the criminal courts of your state.

2. The use of psychopathic experts in the criminal courts of your state.

3. Make a study of a near-by county jail. (Compare data gathered with Queen, _The Pa.s.sing of the County Jail_.)

4. The legal aid bureau in your state.

5. The parole system in your state.

6. Cla.s.sify the correctional inst.i.tutions in your state. What types of offenders are sent to each?

7. Interview, or write to, a prison official in your state regarding the practicability of the indeterminate sentence.

II

8. Criminal law procedure in England. (_Annals_, vol. lii, pages 200- 207; Kaye, _Readings in Civil Government_, pages 328-335.)

9. Criminal law procedure in the United States. (Beard, _American Government and Politics_, pages 568-577.)

10. Defects in the enforcement of the law. (Reinsch, _Readings on American State Government_, pages 173-181.)

11. The courts and the criminal. (Osborne, _Society and Prisons_, chapter ii; Lewis, _The Offender_, part i, chapter iii.)

12. Reform of criminal procedure in the United States. (_Annals_, vol.

lii, pages 102-107.)

13. The county jail. (Queen, _The Pa.s.sing of the County Jail_.)

14. Crime prevention from the standpoint of the police. (Woods, _Crime Prevention_; Lewis, _The Offender_, part ii, chapter ii; _Annals_, vol. lii, pages 56-60.)

15. Overcrowding in its relation to crime. (Riis, _The Battle with the Slum_; Addams, _The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets_.)

16. Juvenile crime. (Mangold, _Problems of Child Welfare_, Part V.)

17. The Junior Republic. (George, _The Junior Republic_.)

18. The work of Judge Ben Lindsay of Denver. (Consult an encyclopedia.)

19. The legal aid society. (Smith, _Justice and the Poor_, part iii.)

20. The Public Defender. (Smith, _Justice and the Poor_, pages 105- 130.)

21. Probation and parole. (Lewis, _The Offender_, part i, chapter v.)