Vol. XI-No. 1

Journal of

THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF

See 2901.2
MAY, 1920

Criminal Law and

Criminology

Official Organ of the American Institute of Criminal Law and
Criminology; of the American Prison Association; and
of the American Society of Military Law

CONTENTS

EDITORIALS.

Annual Meeting-New State Branches of the Institute-Minutes of

the Executive Board of the Institute...

CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES.

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1. The Inferior Criminal Courts of New York City. Mary E. Paddon 8

2. Fighting Crime in Chicago: The Crime Commission...

3. Indenture of Prisoners: An Experiment.

A Study of Multiple Criminal Factors.

5. A Court of Prevention: The Municipal Term

of New York ....

6. The Future of Parole.

..Edwin W. Sims 21

Jessie D. Hodder 29

Edgar A. Doll 33

Court of the City

...W. Bruce Cobb 47

Edith N. Burleigh 60

7. The Nomination of a Commission for the Positivist Reform of

the Italian Penal Code.....

8. Emotional States and Illegal Acts..

...Enrico Ferri 67

..John R. Oliver 77

9. Study of Wage Payment to Prisoners as a Penal Method (Con-

tinued)..

...L. D. Ieyand 96

10. The Importance of Character Study in Criminology

....Guy G. Fernald 107

CORRESPONDENCE (113)-JUDICIAL DECISIONS ON CRIMINAL

LAW AND PROCEDURE (115)-NOTES AND ABSTRACTS (118)

-REVIEWS AND CRITICISMS (144).

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THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY

By Northwestern University Press

Northwestern University Building

31 West Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois

Entered as second-class matter, November 5, 1910, at Chicago, Illinois,

under the act of March 3, 1879.

American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology

OBJECT. The object of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology "shall be to further

the scientific study of crime, criminal law and procedure, to formulate and promote measures for

solving the problems connected therewith and co-ordinate the effort of individuals and of organizations

Interested in the administration of certain speedy justice."

ORGANIZATION. Membership.-The institute is both a national and a local organization, the

national organization being the American Institute and the local organization being known as "-

State Branch of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology," with such local branches

of cities, counties or other districts for local work, meetings and investigations as the state branch may

desire, such local branches to fix their dues and elect their officers subject to the approval of the

state branch. Applications for membership in the American Institute itself should be addressed to the

secretary, and are passed upon by the Executive Board. Applications for membership in the state

branch where the applicant resides should be sent to the secretary of such state branch or to the

secretary of the American Institute, who will forward it to the secretary of the state branch.

INFORMATION. All communications with reference to the work of the Institute and member-

ship therein should be addressed to:

phia.

Secretary, American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, 819 Land Title Building, Philadel-

DUES. The annual dues of the American Institute are $2.00. The annual subscription to the

JOURNAL is $3.00, thus giving all the advantages of the Institute and the JOURNAL for $5.00 per year.

The annual dues of the state branches are such as each state branch may fix. Where a state branch is

organized, residents of that state must join through it, and membership will include membership in the

American Institute.

OFFICERS: The general officers of the Institute and Executive Board are:

PRESIDENT:

Hugo Pam, Judge of the Superior Court, Chicago, Ill.

VICE-PRESIDENTS:

Charles A. De Courcy, Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts.

Burdette G. Lewis, Commissioner of Corrections, Trenton, N. J.

Joel D. Hunter, Superintendent of United Charities, Chicago.

TREASURER:

Bronson Winthrop, 32 Liberty Street, New York City.

SECRETARY:

Edwin M. Abbott, former member of the Legislature and Chairman of State Commission on Amend-

ment and Revision of Pena! Laws, Land Title Building, Philadelphia, Pa.

EXECUTIVE BOARD:

For the term expiring 1920:

Franklin Chase Hoyt, Chief Justice of the Children's Court, New York City.

Thomas W. Salmon, M. D., Medical Director of the National Committee on Mental Hygene, New

York City.

Herman M. Adler, M. D., Illinois State Criminologist and Director of the Juvenile Psychopathic

Institute, Chicago.

Edward Lindsey, Warren, Pa.

For the term expiring 1921:

James Bronson Reynolds, Chairman of the Executive Board of the Voluntary Defender's Co-

mittee, New York.

James J. Barbour, State Senator, Chicago, Ill.

James H. Tufts, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

F. Emory Lyon, Superintendent Central Howard Association, Chicago, Ill.

For the term expiring 1922:

Henry Barrett Chamberlin, Director of the Chicago Crime Commission.

Thomas C. O'Brien, Deputy Director of Prisons, Boston, Mass.

August Vollmer, Chief of Police, Berkeley, Cal.

Robert W. Millar, Professor of Law, Northwestern University, Chicago.

Ex-Officio:

John H. Wigmore, Professor of Law in Northwestern University, 31 W. Lake Street, Chicago, Ill.

Nathan William MacChesney, of the Chicago Bar; Commissioner on Uniform State Laws, 30

No. La Salle St., Chicago, Ill.

John B. Winslow, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.

Orrin N. Carter, Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois, Chicago, Ill.

Quincey A. Myers, Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, Indianapolis, Ind.

Ira E. Robinson, former President Judge Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia,

Grafton, W. Va.

John P. Briscoe, Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, Prince Frederick, Md.

George W. Kirchwey, former Dean of the School of Law, Columbia University, New York City.

Irederic B. Crossley, Managing Director of the Institute, Librarian of the Elbert H. Gary Col-

lection of Criminal Law and Criminology, Northwestern University Law School, 31 W. Lake

St., Chicago, Ill.

Roben H. Gault, Managing Editor of the Journal of the Institute, Professor of Psychology in North-

western University, Evanston, Ill.

Journal of the American Institute of

Criminal Law and Criminology

Official Organ of the American Institute of Criminal Law and

Criminology; of the American Prison Association; and

of the American Society of Military Law.

Managing Editor, ROBERT H. GAULT,

Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University.

Managing Director, FREDERIC B. CROSSLEY,

Librarian of the Elbert H. Gary Collection of Criminal Law and

Criminology, Northwestern University.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

CONTENTS

Annual Meeting-New State Branches of the Institute-

Minutes

CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES:

1. The Inferior Criminal Courts of New York City....

..Mary E. Paddon

2. Fighting Crime in Chicago: The Crime Commission.....

.Edwin W. Sims