The late David Wills spent a lifetime in the service of the
so-called delinquent, the misfit, the maladjusted. He was the first
Englishman to train as a psychiatric social worker and was well
known for his books The Hawkspur Experiment, The Barns Experiment,
etc. Originally published in 1970, this book describes another
experiment with a hostel for boys leaving schools for maladjusted
children and lacking any settled home from which to enter the
community. It demonstrates once again David Wills's conviction that
the offender wants to be 'good' and will be helped by affection
rather than by punishment. Yet it is obvious that the work was full
of stress and that only people with some of the attributes of
archangels could respond to the boys' needs and remain in control
of the situation. The book demonstrates the extent of deprivation
suffered by such young people and that no ordinary hostels or
lodgings will do if they are to be set upon a less turbulent course
of life, leading to truly adult independence. It added greatly to
our understanding of the personalities, experience of life and
needs of maladjusted boys in their 'teens at the time, although the
lessons drawn from it were disturbing in relation both to
prevention and treatment. The penetration of David Wills's
assessment is beyond doubt and (as Dame Eileen Younghusband
concludes in her Foreword) his book will give a great deal to those
'trying in various capacities to help boys and girls who otherwise
would grow into adulthood permanently handicapped emotionally and
socially'. This book is a re-issue originally published in 1970.
The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is
meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.
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