W.E.A. SCHOOL ON CRIME

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29179, 13 April 1960, Page 25

W.E.A. SCHOOL ON CRIME

American Professor To Lecture

Changing concepts of crime, a profile of crime and new light on delinquency will be among the topics to be discussed by Professor Albert Morris, the eminent American sociologist and criminologist at a week-end school of the Workers’ Educational Association in Christchurch on April 22 and 23. Professor Morris Is head of the sociology department of the University of Boston and is in New Zealand as an adviser to the Government before he returns to the United States.

Mr Lincoln Efford, secretary of the W.E.A., said yesterday that this school had been arranged because of the wide public interest in new approaches to the study and treatment of crime in New Zealand. The course was planned to inform both those professionally and privately concerned with current problems. It was therefore expected that enrolments, now being accepted, would include officers of Government departments dealing with welfare and the administration of the law, community welfare organisations, those interested in penal reform, and citizens concerned about the problems of crime and its treatment.

Professor Morris will speak on the Friday evening and at morning, afternoon, and evening sessions on the Saturday.