INDEX BY TOPICS. OVERCROWDING AND UNHEALTHFULNESS AS CAUSES OF CRIME: Crime in New York and other great cities... Nurseries of crime in great cities. Domestic improvements diminish crime Description of the homes of juvenile delinquents... RECORDS OF COURTS AND PRISONS-CRIMINAL STATISTICS: The courts of record and their statistics...... The jail records and returns of sheriffs. Special Sessions' records...... Description and statistics of habitual criminals.. PAGE. 81-91 92 91-95 96-98 99-102 102-104, 112-114 105-106 107-110 115-117 117-119 JUVENILE DELINQUENTS AND CHILD-CRIMINALS: Nature and purpose of the inquiry concerning child-criminals. Suggestions for the improvement of juvenile reformatories. An account of the Sing Sing prison as Judge Edmonds found it in 1843, 168–171 Edmonds' appeal for classification and instruction in the prison His description of the abuse of the lash in prisons... The organization of the Prison Association of New York.......... Efforts to secure a constitutional amendment to provide a prison system, 176-177 Principles and practice of prison improvement recommended by OFFICERS OF THE PRISON ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK, 1877. SINCLAIR TOUSEY, 119 Nassau st., Chairman. THOMAS C. ACTON, 32 Wall street. WILLIAM F. ALLEN, Albany. WILLIAM T. BOOTH, 100 Wall street. JOHN D. CRIMMINS, 1037 Third avenue. STEPHEN CUTTER, 228 East Twelfth street. RICHARD L. DUGDALE, 4 Morton street. Z. STILES ELY, 26 West Twenty-sixth street. JOEL B. ERHARDT, 247 Broadway. ANDREW H. GREEN, 1 Fifth avenue. GAYLORD B. HUBBELL, Sing Sing. CHARLES H. KITCHEL, 115 Broadway. WILLIAM P. LETCHWORTH, Buffalo, N. Y. THEODORE W. MORRIS, 27 Chambers street. STANDING COMMITTEES. Committee on Finance. Committee on Detentions. ALGERNON S. SULLIVAN, Chairman. Committee on Discharged Convicts. STEPHEN CUTTER, Chairman. Committee on Prison Discipline. GEORGE H. YEAMAN, Chairman. GENERAL AGENT. A. W. SHELDON. |