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The Hawkspur Experiment - An Informal Account of the Training of Wayward Adolescents (Hardcover)
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The Hawkspur Experiment - An Informal Account of the Training of Wayward Adolescents (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Adolescent
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Originally published in 1941 and written in an attempt to dispute
the popular assumption at the time that a 'bit of discipline' is
what is needed for the correction of young men who show delinquent
tendencies, this book is much more than that. Basically an account
of a kind of voluntary Borstal Institution of which the author was
head from 1936 to 1940, its interest on reissue in 1967 lay in the
fact that it contained the germinal ideas of most of the day's
newest methods in penal treatment, not just as ideas, but in
practice. Here is the therapeutic community in embryo, here are the
beginnings of group therapy, of inmate participation in treatment,
of therapy through relationships. None of them are mentioned by
name - the names had not been invented; but anyone who wanted to
understand the trends in the treatment of delinquent and
maladjusted people at the time would find it all here in simple
untechnical English. The book is also an account of an enthralling
experience, exciting and interesting in itself, apart from any
social significance. Just before the camp started, Alec Paterson
said to David Wills, 'Do you really think you can run a place of
this kind without the use of punishment?' Wills said he didn't
know, but looked forward to trying. Readers of this book may judge
for themselves how far he succeeded. A particularly interesting
feature of this edition is the account of the subsequent lives of
the many boys who were at Hawkspur.
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