The suitable treatment of youthful criminals is now coming to
be recognized as perhaps the fundamental problem with regard to crime and punishment It was in the United States that the first experiments were made with special Courts for the trial of young offenders, and it is upon American experience during the last fifteen years that Messrs. Bernard Flamer and Roger N. Baldwin rely in their book upon Juvenile Courts awl Probation (Grant Richards, 7s. 6d. net). The volume is limped with the authority of a Special Committee of the American National Probation Associa- tion, and is in its essence a practical handbook prepared by experts with a view to assisting future workers in the same field. Every detail of the question is in turn considered, from the difficult psychological problems at the root of the subject to such practical matters as the architectural design of the Courthouse or the methods of registration to be used by the effice staff.
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