Date of Award

5-1937

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Education

First Advisor

Paul J. Mundie

Abstract

The humanizing of penal incarceration has during the present century strode forward in an ever increasing upward trend. We no longer see our prisons merely as instruments of an avenging justice, but rather as a hospital instituted to attend the social ills and maladjustments of the individual. Coupled with and supplemented by this socializing process, has come a new emphasis on the importance of education in the penal institution. It is with this aspect of penology that the thesis is concerned.

Due to the youth of the subject, since education in prisons is still in its childhood, there is a dearth of material in book form, so it is at this time that the author wishes to pay special tribute to the monumental work of Austin H. MacCormick, "The Education of the Adult Prisoner," the only book which has been written on the subject. The excellent survey, "Handbook of American Prisons" published by the Osborne Association of America, also supplied much information for the author. To the various chaplains, wardens, and educational directors of the prisons a special debt of gratitude is incurred for the great amount of material and effort expended in the interest of the present subject.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy

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