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8 Utah L. Rev. 183 (1962-1964)
Probation and Social Agencies

handle is hein.journals/utahlr8 and id is 195 raw text is: PROBATION AND SOCIAL AGENCIES t By SHELDON GLUECK * Two years ago, this lecture series was inaugurated to honor Dean Emeritus Arthur L. Beeley, a gentleman and scholar whose achievements in that most difficult area of human endeavors- human relations- have earned him an esteemed position among social workers. Dean Beeley, founder and first Dean of the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Utah, is well- known for his great success in making his students aware of the importance of our continuing social problems. As I have long admired Dean Beeley's work, especially his history-making study of the bail system in Cook County, Illinois, I was happy to accept this invitation from the Graduate School of Social Work to pay him tribute.' I In casting about for a suitable topic, I recalled a piece of research which had lain dormant, though still very much alive, in my files and which, though perhaps dated as to some facts, remains a contribution to the technique of assessing the efficacy of probation. It seemed especially appropriate in view of the impending celebration in Boston of the 85th anniversary of the first statute in America and probably in the world authorizing the appointment of a proba- tion officer with investigative and visitorial powers in relation to probationers. The study about to be summarized deals with the aid that can be given by a Social Service Exchange and the social welfare organizations using it, in furnishing information of prime value to the pre-sentence investigations of offenders and to the consequent improvement of the judge's sentencing, as well as the probation officer's supervisory practices. The research was part of the Harvard Law School Crime Survey.2 Un- fortunately, for reasons that need not now be entered into, the survey was not fully completed. However, four volumes of the projected overall investigation of criminal justice in Boston were finished and published, among them a book perhaps known to some of you, One Thousand Juvenile Delinquents.3 The probation section of the Harvard survey included, as one aspect among many,4 a research of which the present lecture is a considerable condensa- t Lecture delivered in honor of Dean Emeritus Arthur L. Beeley, at the Graduate School of Social Worl University of Utah, Salt Lake City, April 22, 1963. 4 Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, Harvard University; A.B., 1920, George Washington University; LL.B., LL.M., 1920, National University; A.M., 1922, Ph.D., 1924, Harvard Uni- versity. I BEELEY, THE BAIL SYsTEM IN CHICAGO (1927). See also Beeley, A Socio-Psychological Theory of Crime and Delinquency, 45 J. CiuM. L, C. & P.S. 391 (1945) and materials cited therein. 2For a discussion of the aims and plan of that survey, see Frankfurter, Introduction to GLUECK & GLIECr, ONE THousAND JUVENiLE DFLmN~uErrs (1934). 'GLUECK & GLUECK (1934). The other published works in the series are: WARNER, CRIME AND CaMNA. STATcs IN BoSTON (1934); HARRISON, POLICE ADMINISTRATION IN BOSTON (1934); WARNER & CABOT, JuDGEs AND LAw REFORM (1936). 4The study was part of an elaborate project which was to cover all forms of correctional treatment in Greater Boston: probation, the pardoning power, the history and practices of the Massachusetts peno-correctional system. The project was under the general direction of Shel- don Glueck. He was assisted by Frank Loveland, Jr., Hans Weiss, and, to a lesser extent by Abraham Kamenstein and Sidney Spear, and included a separate monograph on the pardoning power by Norman D. Lattin. It was well on the way to completion when the entire survey, which was under the general direction of Professor (later, Mr. Justice) Felix Frankfurter, was abandoned because of the march of unanticipated events.

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