Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

Official Organ of the American Institute of Criminal Law and
Criminology; of the American Prison Association; and

of the American Society of Military Law.

Managing Editor, ROBERT H. GAULT,

Associate Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University.

Managing Director, FREDERIC B. CROSSLEY,

Librarian of the Elbert H. Gary Collection of Criminal Law and
Criminology, Northwestern University.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Victor von Borosini, Sociologist, Chicago.
John P. Briscoe, Judge of the Court of Ap-
peals of Maryland, Prince Frederick, Md.
Frederic B. Crossley, Librarian of the
Elbert H. Gary Collection of Criminal
Law and Criminology, Northwestern Uni-
versity.

Katherine Bement Davis, Chairman, Parole
Board, New York City.

Charles A. De Courcy, Justice of Supreme
Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

Robert Ferrari, Member of the New York
City Bar.

James W. Garner, Professor of Political
Science, University of Illinois.

Bernard Glueck, Director Psychopathic
Laboratory, State Prison, Ossining, N. Y.
William G. Hale, Professor of Law, Uni-
versity of Illinois.

William Healy, Director Juvenile Psychop-
athic Institute, Chicago.

Joel D. Hunter, Chief Probation Officer,
Juvenile Court, Chicago.

EDITORIALS:

CONTENTS

Announcement: Officers of the Institute, (482)-The Annual
Meeting of the American Prison Association-Monograph
Supplement No. 2.......

CONTRIBUTED

PORTS:

ARTICLES AND COMMITTEE RE

483

1. Insanity and Criminal Responsibility (Report of Committee "A" of the Institute)........ Edwin R. Keedy, Chairman 484 2. Indeterminate Sentence, Release on Parole, and Pardon (Report of Committee of the Institute).

...Edward Lindsey, Chairman 492

3. The Crown Side of the "Eyre" in the Early Part of the Thirteenth Century.... ..William Renwick Riddell 495

4. The Law of Pennsylvania Relating to Illegitimacy..

...W. Logan McCoy 505

5. The Binet Scale and the Diagnosis of Feeble-Mindedness.. ...Lewis M. Terman 530

6. A Bibliography on the Relations of Crime and FeebleMindedness....

...L. W. Crafts 544

7. The War Power and the Government of Military Forces .George Melling 556

CORRESPONDENCE:

On Legislation for Sterilization, (591)-The Public Defender; Duty to Furnish Technical Defense, (593)-Unexpected Results from the Establishment of the Office of Public Defender, (596). JUDICIAL DECISIONS ON CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE ....

NOTES AND ABSTRACTS:

600

Obligation of the Schools for the Training of Feeble-Minded Children, (607)-Proposed Sterilization Act for Illinois, (611) -New Legislation in Massachusetts Affecting the Insane, (614) -Report of Special Committee on Revision and Amendment of the Penal Laws in Pennsylvania, (616)—Police Work a Profession, not a Job, (622)-Schedule of Subjects Taught in the Detective School, Police Headquarters, N. Y. City, (624)—The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco on the Appointment of Police Judges, (624)-Royal Irish Constabulary Cadetships, (627) -The Police Courts, (627)-Civil Service Examination for Chief Probation Officer in New York City, (628)-Award of Corpus Juris Scholarships, (629)-Massachusetts Fugitives from Justice, (630)-The Professional Bondsman, (630).

REVIEWS AND CRITICISMS:

Swindling and Other Forms of Fraud, Tolomei, (632)—A Schema for the Psychology of Testimony, von Karman, (633)Homicide in Italy from 1881-1911, Spallanzani, (634)—Problems of Juvenile Criminality in France Occasioned by the Great War, (637).

DIRECTORY OF OFFICERS, 1916-1917

American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology

President: John P. Briscoe, Judge of the Court of Appeals, Prince Frederick, Md.

Vice-Presidents:

Hampton L. Carson, 1520 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.
Harry Olson, Chief Justice, Municipal Court, Chicago.
Thomas Mott Osborne, Auburn, N. Y.

Walton J. Wood, Public Defender, Los Angeles, Cal.

Robert O. Harris, former Judge of the Superior Court, Boston.

Secretary: Edwin M. Abbott, Land Title Bldg., Philadelphia.

Executive Board: Chairman, John H. Wigmore, 31 W. Lake St., Chicago.

American Society of Military Law

President: Col. Burnett M. Chiperfield, M.-C.-at-Large from Illinois, Illinois National Guard.

Secretary: Professor Henry W. Ballantine, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill.

Executive Committee: Chairman, Col. Nathan William MacChesney, Judge Advocate General, Illinois National Guard.

American Prison Association

President: David C. Peyton, General Supt. Indiana Reformatory, Jeffersonville, Ind.

Vice-Presidents:

J. B. Wood, Supt. State Penitentiary, Richmond, Va.
Frank Moore, Supt. State Reformatory, Rahway, N. J.

Mrs. Jessie D. Hodder, Supt. Reformatory for Women, Framing-
ham, Mass.

M. Z. White, Warden State Penitentiary, Moundsville, W. Va.
Gen. Demetrio Castillo, Warden Cuban Penitentiary, Havana.

C. L. Ditson, Member State Board of Charities and Corrections,
Sioux City, S. D.

Rev. David H. Tribou, Chaplain U. S. Navy (retired), Bucks-
port, Me.

General Secretary: Joseph P. Byers, Empire Bldg., Philadelphia.