[Leaflets]
Publisher: Howard Assoc.
Published: 1884
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Table of contents: value: Can prisons reform men?-  Charles Dickens' prison fictions.- Christianity amongst prisoners.-  The collegiate and hotel prisons of the United States, 1891.-  The coloured race in America.-  Conditional liberation of prisoners.-  Children's courts and the probation system.- Continuing cruelties in the convict chain gangs and camps of the southern United States.-  Convict labour in the United States.-  The diminution of pauperism.-  The essential element of time, for reformatory of restorative success, especially in reference to habitual offenders, drunkards, and tramps.-  General Curtis on the death penalty.-  The housing of the poor and its amelioration.-  The Howard Association.-  The Howard centennial (1890) and the Howard Association of London.-  Methods of prison reform.- Notes on the housing problem.-  Official statistics and reports (1890) on capital punishment.-  On advantageously keeping down the rates, to guardians of the poor, and others. 1889.-  Prisons and criminal treatment.-  "Probation officers" and "The gift of guidance".-  Summary of the services of the Howard Association. (John Howard's centenary, 1890)- Summarised information on capital punishment.-  The supervision of pauper and friendless children.-  "Unfit for prison discipline." a plea for the unfit.-  Women in criminal and pauper administration.-1889.