Mental Illness and the Runaway: A 30-Year Follow-Up Study
- 1 December 1957
- journal article
- Published by Society for Applied Anthropology in Human Organization
- Vol. 16 (4) , 11-15
- https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.16.4.0083687q68490112
Abstract
The effect the mental health movement has had on our attitudes toward the juvenile delinquent might be summarized as a change from the goal of Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado of making "the punishment fit the crime" to the goal of making "the punishment fit the criminal." We aim not at retribution for the crime against society, but at some sort of therapy precisely tailored to the needs of the particular culprit which will so change him that he no longer desires to act in an anti-social fashion.Keywords
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