The Survey October 1917-March 1918 . ocal control in counties. It is evidence of the speed with which events are happeningin New Jersey that a bill embodying this plan of control hasalready been introduced into the legislature. Not only thecorrectional institutions but the charitable ones as well areput under the jurisdiction of the central board. This meetsthe expressed hopes of the commission, though it did not makeany recommendation on that point since the charitable institu-tions were outside its scope. The bill embodies others of itsrecommendations also. Clearly, one of the most vital ele
The Survey October 1917-March 1918 . ocal control in counties. It is evidence of the speed with which events are happeningin New Jersey that a bill embodying this plan of control hasalready been introduced into the legislature. Not only thecorrectional institutions but the charitable ones as well areput under the jurisdiction of the central board. This meetsthe expressed hopes of the commission, though it did not makeany recommendation on that point since the charitable institu-tions were outside its scope. The bill embodies others of itsrecommendations also. Clearly, one of the most vital elements in the success ofthis plan will be the character and qualifications of the expertcommissioner of correction, to be appointed by the officer will control in large measure the destinies ofNew Jerseys law-breakers. He ought to be a man of largesympathies and of executive ability, but he ought to be muchmore than that. He ought to be familiar with the tendenciesof modern penology; in these he should take a genuine, sym-. THE NEW JERSEY STATE PRISON IN 1917 594 THE SURFEY FOR MARCH 2, 1918 pathetic interest. He ought to know that education, trainingin vocations and some measure of experience in governing hisnormal prisoners reform. He ought to be acquainted withthe studies of individual delinquents made by Dr. Healy andothers. He ought to know the kinds of causes of criminalitythat these studies have revealed. He ought to know, forexample, that general categories of criminals and generaltheories of crime crumble away when one is face to face withthe individual offender. Then heredity, mental condition andgrowth, environment, the history of childhood and adolescence,physical defects—in a word, the sum total of forces that havemade the individual what he is—become all important. Pains-taking diagnosis of each offender is the essential preliminary oftreatment; without this, no step can be taken with prisoners, feebleminded, the mentally deteriorate
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