by H. Ashley Weeks
foreword by Ernest W. Burgess
University of Michigan Press, 1958
eISBN: 978-0-472-91147-9 (OA)

ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK
At Highfields Youthful Offenders —are kept for no longer than four months —are permitted to leave the grounds with any responsible adult —are granted three-day furloughs over weekends to visit their families —live with no more than 19 other boys in a 14-room house on a 320-acre estate —work forty hours a week at the nearby New Jersey Neuropsychiatric Institute —actively participate in guided group interaction sessions .How successful is this program? How do the results compare with those of the more traditional reformatory? At one-third the usual cost per capita, is Highfields the answer in delinquency prevention? H. Ashley Weeks, on the basis of a survey by the New York University Department of Sociology, evaluates the success of a program of crime prevention.