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"This lad is very wild, was in a gang, deliberately modelled on the Dead End Kids, broke into several houses. Is now on probation. Resentful sort of boy, quite bright."

Scope and Contents Publications: Handbook of Information for the use of Social Workers, Manchester and Salford Council of Social Service (1952); The Place of Psychology in Social Work, Case Conference (1956); National Association for Mental Health Pilot Survey of Adoption Cases (1953); Some Medical Problems as they affect Adoption Practice (1956); Child Adoption (1954); Reports of the Standing Conference of Societies Registered for Adoption (1953, 1955, 1957); Joint UN/WHO Meeting of...

Scope and Contents Reference material relating to criminal justice, probation, prisons, offenders, juvenile delinquency, and correctional services.Published material: The Rationalist, Vol XXXII, No. 10 (1962), journal of the Rationalist Association of Australia [articles on juvenile delinquency and religion and the child]; Dominon Bureau of Statistics, Juvenile Delinquents (1961); Focus, journal of the National Probation and Parole Association...

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Reports and newsletters issued by the ISTD (1959-1964) including John Spencer's membership card.

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Papers relating to Spencer's time as an Assistant Lecturer and Lecturer in Social Science at the London School of Economics. Includes teaching material, committee papers, correspondence and research notes.

Scope and Contents Reference material dating from John Spencer's time at the London School of Economics including journals, HMSO publications, conference reports and annual reports.Publisehd material: LSE Director's Reports 1945-1957; Economic Survey for 1948, HMSO; Parliamentary Acts relating to adoption, unemployment, disabled persons and old age; Minutes of Evidence taken before the Commission on Capital Punishment 1949-1950; Barns School Annual Report (1952); Criminological Research Bulletin...

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Papers relating to John Spencer's time as Professor of Social Work at the University of Toronto. Includes teaching material, research, correspondence and conference papers.

Scope and Contents Student essays submitted for marking by undergraduates at the School of Social Work: Proposal for a Study of the Exercise of Discretion by the Police of a Metropolitan Areas in the Disposition of Juvenile Offenders; The Persistent Criminal: His Characteristics and Some Treatment Considerations; Special Projects and the Use of Detached workers in the Prevention of Delinquency.Theses submitted as part of the requirements for Degree in Master of Social Work: Criminality and...

Scope and Contents Papers relating to research into teenage gangs. Includes field notes and typed copy report of a survey of Wapping carried out by students at the London School of Economics and titled "Youth in a Dockland Community". John Spencer acted as advisor on the project which aimed to determine whether there were any demonstrable causes of club attachment and whether thers was any relationship between such attachment and delinquency. Also includes papers relating to the Boys Barge Club; proposal to do...

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Papers relating to John Spencer's time as Professor of Social Work at the University of Toronto. Includes teaching material, research, correspondence and conference papers.