Children Who Stumble; Being the report of a committee appointed by the chairman of a conference convened by the Middlesex County Council to consider a memorandum issued by The Home Office and Board of education on Juvenile Offences
- Middlesex, UK: For The Committee, 1941
Middlesex, UK: For The Committee, 1941. First Edition. Octavo. 18cm. Publisher's pale blue card wraps titled in black to front cover. 64pp. Front panel and spine uniformly faded to pale grey, with only the rear wrap retaining its original color, a little rusting around the staples and some mild soiling; internally clean with the ownership, notes and in text emphasis of Joan D. Thompson to the title page and at various points in the text. A very good copy with some cosmetic wear.
The printed appearance of a report given to the Middlesex County Council Conference on February 11th 1942, at the Middlesex Guildhall (which can be found in Parliament Square in London, and houses the Supreme Court). London is in the throes of the Blitz, and the world is at war, which presented officials on the Council level with a series of unprecedented challenges. Children were made homeless and orphaned by bombing, evacuee children were being ferried all over the countryside for their safety, in accordance with emergency decrees that made no allowance for trauma, mental health or any of the longer term consequences of fear, dislocation, and isolation from support. The result of this was a surge in juvenile crime and misbehavior, with everyone being too preoccupied to do very much about its root causes. The memorandum in question was written by Dr. Mary K. Ruddy, Psychiatrist to the Education Committee, and delivered to a gathering of representatives from education, law enforcement, the church and a number of other local authorities gathered to formulate a response to a problem which was clearly just going to worsen as the war continued. Informative, and a little enraging, with no institutional holdings discoverable.
The printed appearance of a report given to the Middlesex County Council Conference on February 11th 1942, at the Middlesex Guildhall (which can be found in Parliament Square in London, and houses the Supreme Court). London is in the throes of the Blitz, and the world is at war, which presented officials on the Council level with a series of unprecedented challenges. Children were made homeless and orphaned by bombing, evacuee children were being ferried all over the countryside for their safety, in accordance with emergency decrees that made no allowance for trauma, mental health or any of the longer term consequences of fear, dislocation, and isolation from support. The result of this was a surge in juvenile crime and misbehavior, with everyone being too preoccupied to do very much about its root causes. The memorandum in question was written by Dr. Mary K. Ruddy, Psychiatrist to the Education Committee, and delivered to a gathering of representatives from education, law enforcement, the church and a number of other local authorities gathered to formulate a response to a problem which was clearly just going to worsen as the war continued. Informative, and a little enraging, with no institutional holdings discoverable.