1949 Sir William Norwood East published “Society and the Criminal” discussing responsibility, sexual offenders, and the non-sane non-insane offender. He argued for a special institution to treat the non-sane non-insane offenders echoing the East-Hubert report of 1933.
The Criminal Justice Act abolished hard labour, penal servitude & whipping. In the same year Sydney Silverman MP introduced a private members bill to suspend the death penalty for five years but it was defeated in the House of Lords.… Continue reading
John Bowlby published the landmark study Forty-four Juvenile Thieves, which identified correlations between stealing and separation from mothers, anxious, hostile mothers, traumatic experiences, and an “affectionless character”.
Institute of Psychiatry developed Section of Forensic Psychiatry led by Dr Trevor Gibbens.
1942 Sir William Norwood East published The Adolescent Criminal, a descriptive study of 4000 male adolescent offenders, looking for causal factors.
The East-Hubert Report was published by the Home Office advocating psychotherapy for prisoners and the special kind of penal institution which would be both a clinic and the Centre for special training as well as long-term care.
The psychopathic clinic became the Portman clinic, which is still a specialist outpatient psychotherapy unit for people with antisocial behaviour, and especially for men who commit sex offences.
Sir William Norwood East published Medical Aspects of Crime discussing prison administration, attempted suicide in prison, exhibitionism, adolescent crime, alcohol and drug addiction, murder and the psychologist.
Prisoners in a Changing Civilisation by Morris Hamblin-Smith, published. A textbook of forensic psychotherapy.
This recommended establishing a special prison to be a criminological research centre and a training and treatment centre especially for prisoners of the “non-sane non-insane” category (as East called them).