Observations on Imprisonment as a Source of Criminality

Donald Clemmer

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1931-1951) · 1950 · 74 citations · 0 references

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The following is one of several contributions from the United States to the program of the World Congress of Criminology in Paris, September 10 to 18, 1950. The author is Director of the Department of Corrections of the District of Columbia. During 1932 to 1941 he was Senior Sociologist in the Illinois Division of Criminology. He was Personnel Director for the Republic Drill and Tool Co. from 1941 to 1944, and Associate Warden of the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta from that time until he assumed his present office.-EDITOR.