In New York resides a dramatic critic, now on the staff of a great newspaper, who has his own ideas about movie acting. The idea in question is that there is no such thing as movie acting and the gentleman carries it out by refusing to allow the word "acting" to be printed in any of the notices and reviews in his newspaper. When he wishes to convey the thought that such and such a star acted in...
Most people seem to think there are concerned in the making of motion pictures just four classes of people actors, scenario writers, directors and cameramen. It all seems very simple. The scenario writer sits down in the morning and works out a scene; he wakes up the director, who packs some actors and a cameraman in an automobile, together with a picnic lunch, and goes out to make the picture...
Were the average man suddenly called upon to assemble all the women in his town who looked like Mary Pickford, he might find himself at a loss as to how to commence. In fact, he might even doubt that there were sufficient persons answering this description to warrant such a campaign. We know a way to get them all together on twenty- four hours' notice. Just insert a small advertisement in the...
At the National Conference of Criminal Law and Criminology, held in Chicago, at Northwestern University, in June, 1909, the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology was organized; and, as a part of its work, the following resolution was passed:
"Whereas, it is exceedingly desirable that important treatises on criminology in foreign languages be made readily accessible in the...
The female occupants of our penitentiaries are comparatively few in number, and although much is being written nowadays concerning the treatment meted out to male convicts, that to which women are subjected has excited little attention.
The Los Angeles branch of the Prison Reform League is the possessor of the only detailed and quite recent account of life in the female department at San...
Recidivism is the tendency of criminals to return to crime after spending time in an institution for the reform of the criminal character. This term applies to both juvenile and adult delinquents, and is seen to be the major reason behind the soaring crime rates of late.
The problem is not a new one - it is not the product of today's violent television or stressful workplace. For the problem...
The passage from the old to the new ; from the regime of vengeance and deterrence, operating through the base passion of fear, to that of social protection and individual reformation, naturally finds its most complete expression in the treatment of juvenile delinquents. We say " naturally " because this innovation, which is of distinctly modern growth and has leaped into almost universal favor,...
The history of criminology will show that punishment of individuals is not a successful method of preventing crime. If it were there ought to be fewer people in jail every year.
On the contrary crime is on the increase. Each year adds to the inmates of nearly every reformatory in this country. There is no justification for the punishment of a human being unless it is necessary to help him,...
In order to understand the failings of the modern Western Prison system, it is fruitful to examine the results obtained in Japan, where better reform rates are to be found.
It is difficult to associate the light-hearted Japanese women with the dark, forbidding and depressing side of life suggested by prison. But even in the Land of the Rising Sun crime and the punishment of it have to be...
Open the page of any popular 21st century newspaper and you will see story after story exposing individuals who have been arrested in connection to some crime or other. Uniformly, you will find them treated as guilty before the trial. It is this treatment which ruins the reputations of many upstanding citizens who have the misfortune to be wrongly accused.
We must remember that the mere fact...
