Mass Observation: Report on Juvenile Delinquency

Spencer, John; Willcock, H. D.; Glover, Elizabeth R.

doi:10.2307/587563

The British Journal of Sociology

1950

DOI: 10.2307/587563

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Mass Observation: Report on Juvenile Delinquency

John Spencer¹,

H. D. Willcock²,

Elizabeth R. Glover³

Abstract: Mass Observation Report on Juvenile Delinquency. By H. D. Wilcook. The Falcon Press. 7s. 6d. This book claims to be a thorough examination the whole problem of juvenile delinquency and Is a product of research by mass observation.

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“…A staple diet of 'ping-pong' and Coca-Cola will not cure the gang boy's thirst for excitement and adventure. A club run on the lines of the Barge Club as depicted by John Spencer 22 might deflect and captivate the attention of the more marginal gang member. The 'core sociopath' as Yablonsky 23 puts it, requires more specialised help than this and more than the present Approved School system can hope to offer.…”

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QUESTIONING THE RHETORIC OF BRITISH BORSTAL REFORM IN THE 1930s

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In 1938, the Reverend Digby Bliss Kittermaster, who became chaplain at Rochester Borstal after retiring as a housemaster at Harrow public school, started a diary in which he recorded everyday interactions with inmates and staff. The reputation of the borstal system was at its height in the 1930s owing to Alexander Paterson's reforms, based on the structures and character-building ethos of British public schools. Young people's voices were rarely heard in this progressive discourse of borstal reform and Kittermaster is unusual for articulating them, recording what he heard, teasing out the contradictions of Paterson's reforming aspirations and the reality of humiliation and intimidation that borstal boys often experienced. Kittermaster's public school background made him well placed to question the rhetoric of the public school reform model. His complex personal perspective suggests how humane emphasis on individual potential was subverted at Rochester by coercive structures of traditional prison improvement. Kittermaster's growing frustration at his own powerlessness supports a more nuanced interpretation of how the borstal system has usually been depicted in the Paterson era of reform, especially in relation to damaging mental and emotional costs to inmates and staff, which have been largely neglected in the scholarship of borstal in the 1930s.

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Mass Observation: Report on Juvenile Delinquency

Abstract: Mass Observation Report on Juvenile Delinquency. By H. D. Wilcook. The Falcon Press. 7s. 6d. This book claims to be a thorough examination the whole problem of juvenile delinquency and Is a product of research by mass observation.

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‘A Glasgow Gang Observed’

‘A Glasgow Gang Observed’

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