PROBLEMS OF JUVENILE CRIMINALITY IN FRANCE, OCCASIONED BY THE GREAT WAR. Revue penitentiare et de Droit penal, Avril-Mai, 1915. At meetings of the Comité de défense des enfants traduits en justice de Paris on April and May, 1915, certain problems touching the proper tribunal to handle cases of juvenile law-breakers came before this committe for discussion. One of these problems relates to the handling of minors who come before the Councils of War. In this discussion it came out that the military legislation and the law of 1912 conflict. on several important points relative to the competence of the civil and the war authorities to handle juvenile cases. In other words, the changes made in the procedure of handling juveniles as the result of the development of juvenile courts in the various countries of the world were such that they do not accord with the procedure in time of war. In this discussion an effort was made to divide the juvenile cases so that certain of them would be handled by the Councils of War and others by the civil authorities. The difficulty of adjustment lay in the fact chiefly that the courts for children in France have always the right to come back to the decision originally made by the court and modify it in whatever directions are necessary for the proper disposition of the case. The problem of course becomes more complicated when the child has been taken provisionally and for a definite time under supervised liberty. As a result of the discussion the following resolutions were adopted: 1. Minors from thirteen to eighteen years are to come under the jurisdiction of the Council of War in the cases provided by the law. 2. The Councils of War must observe as far as possible the rules of procedure established by the law of July 22, 1912, for minors. 3. The military tribunals are to apply to minors the penalties and special measures provided by the laws which concern them. 4. If the minor is held under supervised liberty, the Councils of War of the interior must supervise the execution of that measure. University of Wisconsin. J. L. GILLIN. Official Organ of the American Institute of Criminal Law and EDITORIALS. CONTENTS The Retirement of Judge Merritt W. Pinckney from the Juvenile 642 CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES AND COMMITTEE REPORTS. 3. The Traumatic Neurosis: Nature and Management; Some For- 4. Feeble-Mindedness Among Adult Delinquents. Tom A. Williams 689 Thomas H. Haines 702 5. Practical Applications of Psychology to the Problems of a Clearing House.... .Mabl R. Fernald 722 6. Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Institute.... The Editors 732 7. Summary of the Proceedings of the American Prison Associa- CORRESPONDENCE (743) - JUDICIAL DECISIONS (758) — NOTICE 798 $3.00 a Year; Foreign, $3.50 Published bi-monthly for 60 Cents a Number THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY 31 West Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois Entered as second-class matter, November 5, 1910, at Chicago, Illinois, |