Crime and Criminals

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

"Crime and Criminals"

Entry/Object ID

2010.42.1.1

Description

"Crime and Criminals" by The Prison Reform League (Los Angeles: Prison Reform League Publishing Company,) 1910. The book analyzes and makes suggestions for improvement regarding the criminal justice system in America from the viewpoint of Griffith J. Griffith, the donor to Los Angeles of Griffith Park and who served prison time for the shooting and gravely wounding of his wife. There is a chapter on Griffith's experience in San Quentin and an appendix consisting of a lecture given by him. With bumping and rubbing to the boards, which are very clean and tight clean pages, the condition is good.

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California. Department of Public Health. Bureau of Child Hygiene, United States. Department of Labor. Children's Bureau.

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