Abstract
THIS is an interesting, useful, and on the whole well-written book. It appears at a time when outbreaks of crime, especially in the United States and to a certain extent in England, have made methods of prevention even more urgent than methods of detection and punishment. Mr. Gordon reveals with intimate knowledge and sympathy the methods employed now for a good many years at the five Borstal institutions in England. It is an encouraging picture, and being drawn with a frank and critical hand, carries the more conviction. He was himself an inmate at the Feltham Borstal and, having made good afterwards, largely through the interest and generosity of an American friend, was able to revisit the scenes of his early training, recall his own experiences, and note subsequent changes. He also visited the ‘girls Borstal at Aylesbury, and seems to have marched with the new colony which swarmed off a year or two back from Feltham to Lowdham. This forms one of the most attractive episodes in the book.
Borstalians.
By J. W. Gordon. Pp. 284. (London: Martin Hopkinson, Ltd., 1932.) 7s. 6d. net.
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M., F. Borstalians. Nature 130, 189 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130189a0
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