 At least 25 per cent, of the inmates of our penal institutions are mentally defective and belong either to the feeble-minded or to the defective delinquent class. Nearly 50 per cent, of the girls at the Lancaster Reformatory are mentally defective.  The Delinquent - Page 221911Full view - About this book
 | Frederick Howard Wines, Winthrop David Lane - 1910 - 596 pages
...Perhaps the whole matter may be summed up in the following words of one careful student of the subject: "At least 25 per cent. of the inmates of our penal institutions are mentally defective and belong to either the feebleminded or to the defective delinquent class."1 The ratio of one in five has been... | |
 | American Prison Association. Congress - 1912 - 494 pages
...reformatories is much larger than had been supposed. Dr. Walter E. Fernald, in his paper of October 23, 1912, said -. "At least 25 per cent, of the inmates...mentally defective." (It will be observed that Dr. Fernald ;s estimate is nearly double that made by Mrs. Evans and Miss Dewson in 1908 for the Lancaster... | |
 | Michael Frederic Guyer - 1916 - 426 pages
...Subnormal. — Doctor Walter S. Fernald, of the Massachusetts School for Feeble-minded, estimates that "at least 25 per cent. of the inmates of our penal institutions are mentally defective." Among the various available estimates at hand this seems to be a fairly conservative approximation.... | |
 | Corinne Bacon - 1917 - 356 pages
...DELINQUENCY1 Doctor Walter S. Fernald, of the Massachusetts School for Feeble-minded, estimates that "at least 25 per cent of the inmates of our penal institutions are mentally defective." Among the various available estimates at hand this seems to be a fairly conservative approximation.... | |
 | 1913 - 734 pages
...than had been supposed. Dr. Walter E. Fernald of the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-minded says "At least 25 per cent of the inmates of our penal institutions are mentally defective. Nearly SO per cent of the girls at the Lancaster Reformatory are mentally defective." Psychological... | |
 | 1916 - 558 pages
...they are made, and the material out of which they are made is feeble-mindedness." Fernald says that "at least 25 per cent of the inmates of our penal...feebleminded or to the defective delinquent class"; that 50 per cent of the girls in the Lancaster Reform School, a great number of the neglected and dependent... | |
 | 1919 - 288 pages
...psychopathological examination employed in such determinations. Dr. Walter Fernald has stated, "At least twenty-five per cent of the inmates of our penal institutions...feeble-minded or to the defective delinquent class. "At that rate we should have twenty thousand such individuals in adult prisons, and six thousand in... | |
 | Frederick Howard Wines - 1919 - 506 pages
...Perhaps the whole matter may be summed up in the following words of one careful student of the subject: "At least 25 per cent. of the inmates of our penal institutions are mentally defective and belong to either the feebleminded or to the defective delinquent class."1 The ratio of one in five has been... | |
 | Samuel Jackson Holmes - 1919 - 426 pages
...criminal class, but by no means all, are of defective mentality. Fernald states that in Massachusetts "at least 25 per cent. of the inmates of our penal institutions are mentally defective." Criminals show a high percentage of epileptics who are especially predisposed to crimes of violence.... | |
 | 1914 - 592 pages
...than had been supposed. Dr. Walter E. Fernald of the Massachusetts School for the Feeble' minded says: "At least 25 per cent of the inmates of our penal institutions are mentally defective. Nearly 50 per cent of the girls at the Lancaster Reformatory are mentally defective." 18 TEXAS MEDICAL... | |
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