DELINQUENT CHILDREN.
METHODS OF CORRECTION. INSTITUTIONAL TRAINING. “ The Child Welfare Department of New Zealand realises that institutional training leaves its mark on the child and is not the best form of correction for a normal child,” said Mr E. W. G. Thorpe, Child Welfare Officer at Hamilton, In an address to the Hamilton Rotary Club, yesterday. “ The department has instituted a boarding out scheme, placing children in homes that they should have had, thus giving them a chance in life.” He added that cases of sub-normal, backward, and deaf or blind children needed institutional training but it had been proved that correctional training in institutions for delinquent children or those not under proper control was a post graduate course in crime. Mr Thorpe compared the old system of dealing with children with the present one. stating that the department realised that children were not miniature adults and thus required a totally different form of oorreeti.m. Under the present, law the children were dealt with in a special Court and no harmful publicity was allowed. ______
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Waikato Times, Volume 120, Issue 19985, 8 September 1936, Page 6
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174DELINQUENT CHILDREN. Waikato Times, Volume 120, Issue 19985, 8 September 1936, Page 6
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